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Subject: Re: New Nvidia drivers with KSE support
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Petri Helenius wrote:

> Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just saw on http://bsdnews.com that Nvidia has new drivers
>> for FreeBSD 5.x, and these drivers supposedly support KSE:
>>
>> http://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=4944
>>
>> So is this one less reason to keep libc_r around in the tree? ;)
>>  
>>
> I'm still having issues with profiling (-pg) enabled and issuing 
> mallocs and frees from different threads. The same code runs for 
> weeks/months unprofiled. (on dual or quad cpu machines topped up)
>
> Pete


The .mcount in userland is not thread safe, it should be fixed,
but I don't know when will be.

David Xu