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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:36:48 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches 
Message-ID:  <22148.925277808@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:49:44 EDT." <199904272349.TAA28969@lor.watermarkgroup.com> 

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In message <199904272349.TAA28969@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes:
>I'm about to commit the SMP vmspace sharing patch (the %fs approach). All
>kernel modules will need to be recompiled. Recompilation is not neccessary
>for user land applications including ps, libkvm and friends.
>
>In this %fs approach, per-processor private pages are no longer mapped at
>identical virtual address for each cpu, instead a new segment descriptor (%fs)
>is setup to access per-cpu global variables like curproc. 

How is this accessed from C sources ?

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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