Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:26:53 +0200 From: "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why use `thread' as an argument of Syscalls? Message-ID: <3bbf2fe10606051026k7a9bcba4udea9ce369fea6ce4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20279.1149527318@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200606051700.k55H0OeJ092393@chez.mckusick.com> <20279.1149527318@critter.freebsd.dk>
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2006/6/5, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>: > It would be a good Junior Kernel Hacker project to try to replace > these passed arguments with curproc and see if a measurable difference > in performance is obtained. There's another thing to consider: having an argument-passing structure, will improve 'reentrancy' of the kernel. Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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