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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:02:49 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, attilio@freebsd.org, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, prashant.vaibhav@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance	(GSoC	proposal)
Message-ID:  <49CD30E9.7030501@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <49CD0405.1060704@samsco.org>
References:  <11609492.9579.1238167614335.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net> <49CD0405.1060704@samsco.org>

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Scott Long wrote:
> 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.

interestingly it is even feasible to have a per-thread page..
it requires that the scheduler change a page table entry tough.





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