Implementing TLS: step 1

[Daniel Eischen]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > 
> > It is not just that.  It is the cost of an ldt allocation for
> > each thread.  In libkse, we only need as many LDTs as there
> > are KSEs.  Allocating an ldt per-thread increases thread
> > startup and teardown.
> 
> BTW I think we should make kse_create() create the LDT entry
> and return the new segment descriptor inteh mailbox ....
> 
> (just a thought.. (irrelevant to this discussion))

Sure, I think I agreed to this a while back.  It can
be back-burnered if necessary, though, since we've already
got the code that does the allocations/deallocations.

-- 
Dan Eischen