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Re: [RFC][PATCH] _UC_TLSBASE for all ports



On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 06:45:12AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> It is a slippery slope, but I think in this case it is wise to bend.
> If we cannot reach agreement here, consult core.

I see no point bending NetBSD into knots in this case if the resulting
performance is as bad as Joerg claims it will be.  Is it actually the
case that our *context() functions are almost as heavy as a full
kernel-level thread switch?

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon                                          
tls%panix.com@localhost
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud


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