[PATCH] Retrieval of TLS pointer via RDHWR

Robert Millan rmh at debian.org
Tue Dec 28 20:35:57 UTC 2010


2010/12/28 Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>:
> On 12/28/2010 04:36, Robert Millan wrote:
>>
>> Not interested?
>>
>> Note this might become mandatory if you ever want to compile
>> code that uses TLS with recent GCC.
>>
>> In any case, when executed natively, rdhwr is a speed-up
>> compared to a sysarch() call.
>
> Actually, am interested in this, but have been swamped with other things...
>  The code looks good, and we should definitely move in this direction.

Thank you.  So can it be committed, or does it need improvement
of some kind first?

-- 
Robert Millan


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