Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:21:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: Grumble <invalid@kma.eu.org> Subject: Re: Why is PCE not set in CR4? Message-ID: <3F7C5E80.C71F2551@mindspring.com> References: <3F7AA0D8.1080801@kma.eu.org> <20031001124129.GB13612@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
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Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Now that I think on this a bit more, a sysctl might be a better place to > put this, but it seemed to belong with the i386_vm86() bits, rather than > polluting initcpu.c right away. The important thing is to allow the kernel to intermediate and control allocation of counters to applications, so where you put it is less important than that it be a procedural interface. A sysctl can be a procedural interface, but it's kind of ugly. -- Terry
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