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SubjectRe: Using %cr2 to reference "current"
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> Is using %cr2 really faster than the old implementation, or is there
> another reason? It seems that the alignment constraints on the stack
> still remains, since the %esp solution still remains in places...

The stack is no longer aligned. We allocate two pages and disturb the stack
by upto 1.5K. We slab the task structs.

> It might also be worth considering a segment-register based
> implementation instead. The reason we're not using %fs and %gs in the
> kernel anymore is because of the setup slowness, but perhaps using
> them (use %fs since it's much more likely to be NULL and thus faster
> to restore) would be faster than using %cr2?

It may be. Likewise its not clear if %cr2 should hold current or a cpu ident
pointer (so you dont reload on switch of task). This needs more
benchmarking. Its in current -ac to verify the theory is correct not the
tuning.
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