Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet.com>
Cc: threads@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: nvidia OpenGL and lib{thr,kse} related crash
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0306161056350.19977-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10306111505130.12620-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > > > Does some one know any nvidia developer to point them out on this fact? > > > > The NVIDIA drivers uses %gs for TLS. Ugghh! Can you be more specific about this? when you say "driver", do you mean a kernel driver or a userland program. I assume it's a userland pseudo-driver that links with pthreads to achieve its threads? Geez. why don't they use the per-thread-storage that the library provides? What makes them think that %gs is free? I think that linux will start using %gs for the TLS too as well soon. It's used for Thread-local-storage in the pthreads library too, so they trash each other's TLS. do they allocate LDT entries to back their own storage? > > That makes them pretty much useless in -current, especially since > libc_r is on the way out. > > One wonders why they use pthread_key_create() et al, and still > need TLS. > > > I suppose I should have mentioned this. > > Probably :-) > > -- > 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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