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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Better CLONE_SETTLS support for Hammer
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:08:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030305210856.B16093@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E668267.5040203@redhat.com>; from drepper@redhat.com on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:04:07PM -0800

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:04:07PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I wouldn't want to either in your position.  You caused this whole mess
> and now you're not willing to fix it.

I disagree.  We don't need to use a segment register to get the thread 
library equivalent of "current".  Changing the segment registers on a 
per process basis is a waste of time in the context switch.  Instead, 
making x86-64 TLS support based off of the stack pointer, or even using 
a fixed per-cpu segment register such that gs:0 holds the pointer to the 
thread "current" would be better.  Make the users of threads suffer, not 
every single application and syscall in the system.

		-ben
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-06  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-05 18:55 Better CLONE_SETTLS support for Hammer Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-05 19:06 ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-05 19:25   ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-05 21:19     ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-05 19:32   ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-05 21:21     ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-05 23:04       ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-06  1:05         ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-06  3:53           ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-06  4:14           ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-06 10:27             ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-06 18:58               ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-06 19:09                 ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-06  2:08         ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2003-03-06  3:52           ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-06  5:29             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-03-06  5:47               ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-03-06  5:33   ` H. Peter Anvin

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