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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:31:27 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        attilio@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>, prashant.vaibhav@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal) 
Message-ID:  <5739.1238175087@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:51:17 CST." <49CD0405.1060704@samsco.org> 

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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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