From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 7 23:52:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from not.demophon.com (ns.demophon.com [193.65.70.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2767514EFF for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@not.demophon.com) Received: (from will@localhost) by not.demophon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id JAA18044; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:47:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from will) To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup) References: <199907080137.SAA95818@apollo.backplane.com> From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 08 Jul 1999 09:47:32 +0300 In-Reply-To: julian@whistle.com's message of "8 Jul 1999 05:07:12 +0300" Message-ID: <86oghnr62j.fsf@not.demophon.com> Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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