From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B8A8FEC.172413E5@raleigh.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:22:36 -0400 From: Ralph Blach MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Malek , Linix PPC Emmbedded Subject: Re: support for only 255 processes on a 405 References: <3B8A3145.8F73BDA2@raleigh.ibm.com> <3B8A8E16.B26A9254@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Dan Perhaps i dont understand. It looks like from the code that process id and pids dont match. Could you explain how this code works. Chip Dan Malek wrote: > > Ralph Blach wrote: > > > > Is there any support for having a special case for the 405 that would > > limit the number of processes to 255. This means that the pid and > > context could be the same. This might be a performance gain. > > The PID and context are already reused until there are more than 255 > (or whatever the MMU can support) active processes. There isn't a > special case needed, this is generic to all PowerPC with small context > space resources. > > -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/