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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...


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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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