Can I use LDT on i586?

[H . J . Lu]

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:09:56AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > Glibc only uses LDT on i686. I looked at the 2.4 kernel. LDT seems to
> > be compiled in even for i586. Can I use LDT on i586 for linuxthreads?
> 
> In theory yes.  But I never tried it and I'm not convince the speed is OK.

Is there a benchmark I can use or should I just time the linuxthreads
tests?

Thanks.


H.J.