Date: 08 Jul 1999 09:47:32 +0300 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup) Message-ID: <86oghnr62j.fsf@not.demophon.com> In-Reply-To: julian@whistle.com's message of "8 Jul 1999 05:07:12 %2B0300" References: <199907080137.SAA95818@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990707190223.23943e-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) writes: > we already use the gs register for SMP now.. > what about the fs register? > I vaguely remember that the different segments could be used to achieve > this.... (%fs points to user space or something) You can't extend the address space that way, segments are all parts of the single 4GB address space described by the page mapping. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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