Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:19:27 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Hardware limits on numbers of threads? |
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Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > Is this true? Where does the limit come from? > > This was and is true with the kernel before 2.5.3<mumble> when Ingo > introduced TLS support since the thread specific data had to be > addressed via LDT entries and the LDT holds at most 8192 entries. The > GDT based solution now implemented in the kernel has no such limitation > and the number of threads you can create with the new thread library is > only limited by system resources.
So you did not implement LDT entry swapping through the "segment not present" traps? Ah well, moot now :-)
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