Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.6.4-pre1_vsyscall-gtod_B3-part3 (3/3)

Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-04T08:45:27Z

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:00:56AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > I will try again with NTPL since it seems they didn't fix it (at
> > least last time I checked the code the LDT waste as still there).
>
> Does NPTL use the LDT at all? sys_set_thread_area was created
> specifically so that the LDT isn't needed.

It doesn't and neither does LinuxThreads when run on a recent kernel
(which has set_thread_area).

Jakub