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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:34:21 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs
Message-ID:  <20001122133421.S18037@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001122130604.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:06:04PM -0800
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001122154225.18052A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <XFMail.001122130604.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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* John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> [001122 13:06] wrote:
> 
> Eh, I would use a small LDT (LDT's don't have to be large if you don't have a
> lot of selectors) for each KSE with one statically configured selector that %gs
> is always set to that will point to the KSE data.  Thus, when you create a KSE,
> you just setup its LDT to have the KSE data entry point to the KSE data.

Was there something wrong with the suggestion to put the local info
on the stack?  I just don't see it being discussed at all.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]


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