Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:19:52 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Larger IO bitmap? |
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On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:48:11PM +0100, Jos Hulzink wrote: > Hi, > > Increasing the IO bitmap size has huge effects on your Task State Segment > size. It sure is possible to increase that size, but be aware that this means > you are using megabytes for your TSS's only !
Keep in mind that a task's io bitmap is now lazily allocated, so by default no memory will be allocated for it. A similar enhancement for large vs small io bitmaps could be made by allowing the task io bitmap to be a variable size.
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