Re: [Syllable-kernel] Small kernel TLD patch for get_tld_addr()

[Daniel G. <da...@fp...>]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 23:03 +0000, Kristian Van Der Vliet wrote:
> I just want to run this past you all quickly before I go ahead and check this in.
> 
> The patch adds an additional pre-defined TLD, TLD_BASE, which gives us
> the address of the thread data E.g. the address of the first TLD.  This allows
> me to re-write get_tld_addr() to calculate the address of any TLD without
> the need for a syscall.  This neatly removes a whole heap of regular syscalls
> to get_tld_addr()
> 
> Any objections?  Note that this doesn't make any difference until I release
> the matching Glibc, but it will be required at that point.
> 

Looks straight forward to me.  Anything that reduces the number of
syscalls is a very good thing.

Daniel