Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:04:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rearranging kse mailbox Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307181401170.14696-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20030718204206.GB34991@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > for TLS we need to ensure that the first few (actually, 1 but a couple > > more can't hurt) entry in the KSE mailbox is available as a pointer to > > the TLS. (on 386 at least). Marcel probablyt has more to say on the > > topic. > > Good point. I forgot about TLS. I'll bump it up on my todo list. I don't have teh TLS spec with me here.. I don't know if other architectures would make other requirements.. %gs on x86 'points' to a segment containing the KSE mailbox. I'm not sure how we'd go on other architectures.. maybe we end up doing it in reverse.. ([TLS reg]->our_kse_mbox might be a pointer to the mailbox?) > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net >
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