Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:12:02 +0800 From: "David Xu" <davidxu@freebsd.org> To: <deischen@freebsd.org>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: marcel@xcllnt.net Subject: Re: KSD/TSD take 2 (was: KSE critical regions) Message-ID: <009101c35284$6f943350$0701a8c0@tiger> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10307250339460.8657-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <threads@freebsd.org>; "David Xu" <davidxu@freebsd.org>; "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>; <marcel@xcllnt.net> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:43 PM Subject: Re: KSD/TSD take 2 (was: KSE critical regions) > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > I'd like to try and get his implemented in this next > > > round of changes. If you are going to add a system > > > call, it's easy enough just to call the guts of it > > > from kse_create(). > > > > FWIW: One trick would be to use an "invalid" value for one of the > > parameters on the existing call to mux you into an alternate > > implementsion (which could even take additional parameters, for > > obvious reasons). > > Possibly... > > i386_set_ldt(int start_sel, union descriptor *descs, int num_sels); > > You could use start_sel = 0 and num_sels = 1 to have it automatically > find the first one not already allocated. The function already > returns the first selector allocated. > Not only allocate, there needs a deallocate call. > -- > Dan Eischen > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-threads@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-threads > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-threads-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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