Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:50:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 genassym.c machdep.c swtch.s s Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110251550270.6914-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011025021906.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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p is short for "processor" :-) On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 25-Oct-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >> On 25-Oct-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > >> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> ... > >> >> Log: > >> >> Split the per-process Local Descriptor Table out of the PCB and into > >> >> struct mdproc. > >> >> ... > >> > Why? It seems to mainly pessimize things by adding an indirection > >> > ... > >> Imagine a process with 8 threads that sets up a user ldt. Now we have to go > >> update the ldt in all 8 pcb's. A ldt is per-process, not per-thread. The > >> pcb > > > > I see. The "p" in "pcb" is an abbreviation of "thread" :-). > > Heh. Perhaps that should be fixed. :) s/pcb/tcb/? > > > Bruce > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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