Why use `thread' as an argument of Syscalls?

[Attilio Rao]

2006/6/5, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at 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


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