Re: Hardware limits on numbers of threads?

[Jamie Lokier]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > Is this true?  Where does the limit come from?
> 
> This was and is true with the kernel before 2.5.3<mumble> when Ingo 
> introduced TLS support since the thread specific data had to be 
> addressed via LDT entries and the LDT holds at most 8192 entries.  The 
> GDT based solution now implemented in the kernel has no such limitation 
> and the number of threads you can create with the new thread library is 
> only limited by system resources.

So you did not implement LDT entry swapping through the "segment not
present" traps?  Ah well, moot now :-)

-- Jamie