From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Apr 28 11: 8:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF09151D1; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:08:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19247; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:02:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:02:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Luoqi Chen , current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches In-Reply-To: <24329.925322426@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199904281625.MAA05043@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes: > > >> >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 ? > >> > >curproc is now a macro defined as an inline asm function. > > Not that I really miss far pointers, but right now we could use one... No profanity on this list (and Poul, far-pointers were very definitely profane!) Go wash out your mouth! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message