Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:49:00 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: i386 PDA patches use of %gs |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > but it does not actually use the 'normal usermode TLS selector' - it > only loads it. > > a meaningful test would be to allocate two selector values and load and > read+write memory through both of them. >
Well, obviously in one case it would need to switch between null/non-null/null. But yes, good point about using the "usermode" %gs each iteration. I'll do some more tests.
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