From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 17 16:53:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15316 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:53:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15310 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA00340; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:52:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:52:46 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199812180052.TAA00340@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Julian Elischer Cc: "current@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Linux Threads patches available In-Reply-To: <36799B88.2781E494@whistle.com> References: <36799B88.2781E494@whistle.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > The sructure is 328 (?) bytes long, but it already exists. > The fields are simply being shifted from one place to another. > The biggest thing is the (struct sigacts) > which moves from the u area to kvm. Since the U area is fixed in size > (always has a page available) > We do lose some KVM. More importantly, you lose the ability to page the suckers out. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message