support for only 255 processes on a 405
Ralph Blach
rcblach at raleigh.ibm.com
Tue Aug 28 04:22:36 EST 2001
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
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