Subject: Re: per-cpu TSS
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/15/2003 09:37:16
Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> "It should be done in some form or another? Is that true? Why should
> it be done at all?
"Why would anyone need more than 640KB of memory?"
Jaromir
> 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
>
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