Re: TLS support

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%homeworld.netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 01:29:14PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > attached patch provides the initial version of TLS support for M68K.
> > It is fully working, but comes with a performance penalty for libpthread
> > due to the system call to access the thread register. Please test this
> > carefully. It would be nice to measure the performance impact. If it
> > isn't too bad, I would prefer to get the patch in now to remove the
> > second to last architecture depending on stackid on libpthread.
> 
> Is there any specific test or benchmark?

Just measure the runtime of pthread_self, that's the easiest case
(and by far the worst). I don't have any real world benchmarks.

Joerg