Messages in this thread | | | From | cd_smith@ou ... | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:24:51 -0500 (CDT) | Subject | Dumb questions about Linux and process handling |
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Hi,
Since I don't know anything about the i386 architecture internals and even less about recent 2.3.* changes, here's some questions for all you smart people out there:
I've heard recently that 2.3.* does not use a GDT entry per process, but rather per processor. Does this mean that there is only one kernel-space stack per processor as well? (From what I've heard about the i386, priveleged code runs on a different stack, right? I'm making a lot of guesses here, so sorry if I'm being confusing.)
So what resources does a kernel still allocate per process on an i386 (besides just a generic page to hold the task struct)? Did the 4090 task limit for x86 go away?
Just curious,
Chris Smith <cd_smith@ou.edu>
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