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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:13:27 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>
Cc:        dyson@freebsd.org, smp@freebsd.org, haertel@ichips.intel.com
Subject:   Re: some questions concerning TLB shootdowns in FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <9092.850641207@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Dec 1996 09:21:55 %2B0800." <199612150121.JAA12763@spinner.DIALix.COM> 

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In message <199612150121.JAA12763@spinner.DIALix.COM>, Peter Wemm writes:

>However, the shared address space code that I was working on in
>-current (for kernel assisted threading in the smp kernel) means
>that a single vmspace/pmap/etc can be shared among multiple processes
>and this changes the above picture since two cpu's can be using
>the user mode parts of the same page tables at once, one in executing
>in user mode, one in the kernel.

But we could still have a per-cpu flags:
	"I'm not in a shared address-space"

Ie, this would only be set if the CPU was in userland in a non-threaded
process.
	
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