> In message <199904272349.taa28...@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes: > >I'm about to commit the SMP vmspace sharing patch (the %fs approach). All > >kernel modules will need to be recompiled. Recompilation is not neccessary > >for user land applications including ps, libkvm and friends. > > > >In this %fs approach, per-processor private pages are no longer mapped at > >identical virtual address for each cpu, instead a new segment descriptor > >(%fs) > >is setup to access per-cpu global variables like curproc. > > How is this accessed from C sources ? > curproc is now a macro defined as an inline asm function.
> -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
