From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 28 9:11:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interware.hu (mail.interware.hu [195.70.32.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4017037B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:11:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from nairobi-20.budapest.interware.hu ([195.70.50.212] helo=elischer.org) by mail.interware.hu with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 140oIB-00046E-00; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:11:43 +0100 Message-ID: <3A227FF2.FD2CC41E@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:38:26 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Daniel Eischen Subject: Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One thing I just realised: If we are using defered FP state saving and restoring in the kernel, then we will have troubles with that when switching threads in userland, since the handler for that is in the kernel. Of course we could set the place for it in the KSE mailbox and let the kernel save the information when it needs it. Julian -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message