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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: KSD/TSD take 2 (was: KSE critical regions)
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > struct kse_thr_mailbox {
> > 	void			*tm_tls[4];	/* reserved for TLS */
> > 	uint32_t		tm_flags;
> > 	uint32_t		tm_version;
> > 	struct kse_thr_mailbox	*tm_next;
> > 	void			*tm_udata;
> > 	uint32_t		tm_uticks;
> > 	uint32_t		tm_sticks;
> > 	register_t		tm_spare[4];
> > 	siginfo_t		tm_syncsig;
> > 	ucontext_t		tm_context;
> > };
> 
> looking at the above diagrams, we see:
> 
> struct kse_thr_mailbox need not have any TLS stuff. The offset to the

It is only there because you suggested we need a reserve
for TLS.  It can easily be removed ;-)

-- 
Dan Eischen