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SubjectRe: Better CLONE_SETTLS support for Hammer
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:04:07PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I wouldn't want to either in your position. You caused this whole mess
> and now you're not willing to fix it.

I disagree. We don't need to use a segment register to get the thread
library equivalent of "current". Changing the segment registers on a
per process basis is a waste of time in the context switch. Instead,
making x86-64 TLS support based off of the stack pointer, or even using
a fixed per-cpu segment register such that gs:0 holds the pointer to the
thread "current" would be better. Make the users of threads suffer, not
every single application and syscall in the system.

-ben
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