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From: James Mansion <james@westongold.com>
To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>,
        James Mansion
	 <james@westongold.com>, peter@netplex.com.au
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@cimlogic.com.au, lists@tar.com
Subject: RE: Kernel threading (was Re: Thread Scheduler bug)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:03:10 -0000 
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Perhaps I'm being very dense, but you'll have to explain to me what
you are concerned about here.

*My* concern is that pthread_self, and access to thread-specific data,
should be as fast as possible.  Writing thread-hot libraries without
good thread specific data is irksome to say the least.

I'd guess that each 'kernel thread' would benefit from a private page
too.

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Eischen [mailto:eischen@vigrid.com]
>...
> > I'd like to suggest that threads (at least kernel threads)
> > should share an address space EXCEPT for a page (or maybe
> > more than one) that will have a common address in each thread.
> 
> What about same process threads executing on multiple processors?
> 
>   common_address[MAX_CPUS] ?

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