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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Larger IO bitmap?
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:19:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021102181952.C2748@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211022248.11869.josh@stack.nl>; from josh@stack.nl on Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:48:11PM +0100

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.

		-ben

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-02 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-02 18:21 Larger IO bitmap? Stas Sergeev
2002-11-02 21:48 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-11-02 23:19   ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-11-03  1:42   ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-11-02 23:38 ` Denis Vlasenko
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-02 22:47 Stas Sergeev
2002-11-02 23:56 Stas Sergeev

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