Subject: Re: VM86 stuff: how faithful to Linux interface?
To: None <tmm@databook.com>
From: None <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/13/1995 15:40:19
Currently we don't use a TSS per process at all.  Doing so would slow
down context switching significantly.  In fact, the i386 System Software
Writer's Guide specifically disrecommends using multiple TSSes unless
you need some feature that you can't get any other way.