| From: | Brooks Davis <brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:24:27 -0800 |
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:00:19PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > There is one good reason why 1:1 would be useful: thread safety. There > are quite a few library functions which are not thread safe and will > never be. Those could use a static storage with is local to the current > process using the per-thread VM spaces. Thread local storage might be easier in 1:1, but it's not impractical in n:m. It's on the KSE todo list for FreeBSD-5.3 (in the kse case it's required to make the Nvidia OpenGL implemenation work.) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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