Re: NR_TASKS=4096

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at)
Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:08:38 +0200 (MET DST)


On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> do you need _much_ more than 4000 tasks [threads]? If yes then it's time
> to think about soft-switching descriptors.

ie. we can get our current limit to ~8000 by allocating LDT descriptors
dynamically, and putting only the TSSs into the GDT as a static array.

-- mingo