Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:00:26 +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: <24329.925322426@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:25:28 EDT." <199904281625.MAA05043@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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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... -- 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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