Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:23:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs Message-ID: <20001121192331.E18037@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001121221431.26351B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from eischen@vigrid.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:15:28PM -0500 References: <20001121175100.B18037@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001121221431.26351B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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* Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> [001121 19:15] wrote: > > > > Don't more segment registers cause more overhead for context switches? > > It's just one more register that has to be saved. I don't > think it's going to matter much. No extra TLB faults/invalidations? Aren't segment registers somewhat expensive to load? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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