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Subject: Re: LDT_ENTRIES in ldt.h: why 8192?
To: jakub@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:44:51 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <20020213152756.F21624@devserv.devel.redhat.com> from "Jakub Jelinek" at Feb 13, 2002 03:27:56 PM
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> E.g. linuxthreads can eat up to 1024 LDT entries, but that's not very common.
> IMHO there should be a single entry LDT, the emulation 5 entry LDT (current
> default_ldt), 512 entries LDT (page) and then the full blown 8192 entries
> LDT variants. Will post a patch once I finish it.

Manfred already posted a patch that also uses kmalloc not vmalloc which 
improves things no end. Why not use his patch ?
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