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Subject: Re: vimage and curvnet.
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On Friday 19 September 2008 21:36:52 Julian Elischer wrote:
....
> sure, well, if a running thread has curvnet in the pcpu field
> and it is put back in the the thread struct on deschedule.
> then what in td_vnet while the thread is running is not really
> important.

Yes this makes sense, and should be worth experimenting with.  It's only 
that I feel reluctant to start touching anything in our scheduler(s) 
until all the other big changes settle in a bit first.

Marko