Re: I/O permission control in OSKit-Mach

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:09:07PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> When you task switch, the segment bit maps are OR'ed, and only those segments
> are copied.  The actual number of segments (and thus their length) can be
> tuned, 128, 256, 512 and 1024 are convenient values.  Anybody has an idea
> what a good value on todays processors would be?

The numbers there are the length of the segments of course.  The actual
number would be 64, 32, 16, 8.  But of course, everybody veriofied this with
their own calculation already.

Thanks,
Marcus

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