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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:08:34 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, attilio@FreeBSD.org, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, prashant.vaibhav@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance	(GSoC	proposal)
Message-ID:  <49CD3242.8050802@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <49CD1B3D.3030103@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>> I've been talking about this for years.  All I need is help with the 
>>> VM magic to create the page on fork.  I also want two pages, one 
>>> global for gettimeofday (and any other global data we can think of) 
>>> and one per-process for static data like getpid/getgid.
>>
>> FWIW, there are some variations in schemes across OS's -- one extreme 
>> is the Linux approach, which actually exports a mini shared library in 
>> ELF format on the shared page, providing implementations of various 
>> services (such as entering system calls), time stuff, etc.  Less 
>> extreme are the shared pages offered on Mac OS X, etc.
>>
> 
> Yes, but I'd like to start somewhere, and considering that it's been
> impossible in _5_ years to get the 30 minutes of Peter or JeffR or JHB
> time to get the basic VM magic done, I'm keeping my expectations as
> modest as possible.

try alc..  :-)


> 
> Scott
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