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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:02:02 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, attilio@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, prashant.vaibhav@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal) 
Message-ID:  <7319.1238194922@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:59:39 GMT." <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903272254460.12518@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903272254460.12518@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Wats
on writes:

>I guess interesting questions are whether (a) it would be desirable to have 
>per-page, per-cpu, or per-thread mappings.  If there are non-synchronized 
>TSCs, then there might be some interesting advantages to a per-CPU page.

Rule #3:
	The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is
	generalizing from no examples at all.

We can add those mappings when we know why we would want them.


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