From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 19 10:52:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D0337B417; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:52:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (arr@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f8JHZ5I97074; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:35:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:35:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" To: John Baldwin Cc: Peter Wemm , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JKH Project: x86: pcb_ext In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote: : :Each thread would need its own TSS, and to preserve existing semantics, we :would have to change the TSS of all threads for each TSS related syscall. In :light of that, I vote in favor of "no TSS's for kse processes" since TSS's are :used for very few things anyways. LDT's are another matter and can be moved :w/o a problem. Currently fixing a bug in my patch for moving ldt -> mdproc (in struct proc), when done I will let you know -- should be mid-day today. Cheers, Andrew *-------------................................................. | Andrew R. Reiter | arr@fledge.watson.org | "It requires a very unusual mind | to undertake the analysis of the obvious" -- A.N. Whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message