Rusty Russell wrote:
> If we used __thread, then gcc could do this optimization for us when it
> knows an rvalue is needed, however:
>
> 1) gcc wants to use %gs, not %fs, which is measurably slower for the
> kernel,
> 2) gcc wants to use huge offsets to store the address of the per-cpu
> space, and this breaks Xen (and current lguest, but new lguest no longer
> uses segments for protection)
>
Well, if we go to the effort of teaching gcc how to use %fs, we can
probably convince it to generate positive offset TLS relocs too.
J
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