Re: LDT_ENTRIES in ldt.h: why 8192?
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:44:51 +0000 (GMT)
> 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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