Can I use LDT on i586?

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sat May 19 10:41:00 GMT 2001


"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

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

I'll not enable the LDT use for any other processor.  Speed is not the
only problem.  There are all these horribly broken x86 clones.  If you
want LDT use an i686.  If you're not using such a processor you don't
care about speed.

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