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Subject: Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC
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In message <49CD0405.1060704@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:

>I've been talking about this for years.  All I need is help with the VM 
>magic to create the page on fork.  I also want two pages, one global
>for gettimeofday (and any other global data we can think of) and one
>per-process for static data like getpid/getgid.

Agreed, that is a good place to start.

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