Subject: Re: per-cpu TSS
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/14/2003 12:04:29
Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> writes:

> I'd perhaps return to the core of argument, that being
> the proposed change to eliminate the upper cap on number
> of LWPs on NetBSD/i386. Given that it took some 10 years
> to actually start tackle the TSS limitation, it should
> be done in some form or another finally IMHO.

"It should be done in some form or another? Is that true? Why should
it be done at all? Sure, it's conceptually bad to be limited to a
fixed number of LWPs, but is it a practical problem? What we're seeing
in this discussion is that there are side effects to the change beyond
simply removing a cap, and so we have to consider whether it's a cap
that is actually causing trouble.

        - Nathan