From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 25 14:32:40 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3078F37B401; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA06933; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:50:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: John Baldwin Cc: Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 genassym.c machdep.c swtch.s s In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG p is short for "processor" :-) On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 25-Oct-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >> On 25-Oct-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > >> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> ... > >> >> Log: > >> >> Split the per-process Local Descriptor Table out of the PCB and into > >> >> struct mdproc. > >> >> ... > >> > Why? It seems to mainly pessimize things by adding an indirection > >> > ... > >> Imagine a process with 8 threads that sets up a user ldt. Now we have to go > >> update the ldt in all 8 pcb's. A ldt is per-process, not per-thread. The > >> pcb > > > > I see. The "p" in "pcb" is an abbreviation of "thread" :-). > > Heh. Perhaps that should be fixed. :) s/pcb/tcb/? > > > Bruce > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message