Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

[Julian Elischer]

Scott Long wrote:
> I've been talking about this for years.  All I need is help with the VM 
> magic to create the page on fork.  I also want two pages, one global
> for gettimeofday (and any other global data we can think of) and one
> per-process for static data like getpid/getgid.

interestingly it is even feasible to have a per-thread page..
it requires that the scheduler change a page table entry tough.