Subject: Re: per-cpu TSS
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/12/2003 17:02:53
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:10 pm, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> hi,
>
> attached diff is to use per-cpu tss rather than per-process tss.
> number of processes are no longer limited by number of gdt slots with this.
> i tried hbench's lat_ctx benchmark and didn't notice any performance
> differences.  (although it might be differ for processes with i/o bitmaps.)
> any comments?

If there is no performance difference now, then there is certainly no point in 
this, since it will prevent other optimizations.