It would be. I don't write a lot of mutli-threaded code, and I did not know that GCC supported __thread. Well, now I know. The implementation is much cleaner now.
Thanks, Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> To: Thomas Thomas <ricinw...@yahoo.com> Cc: "bug-hurd@gnu.org" <bug-hurd@gnu.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 12:29 PM Subject: Re: Many questions, mostly about mach-defpager Thomas Thomas, le Mon 30 Apr 2012 16:30:00 -0700, a écrit : > Nextly, it uses cthread_data to store a pointer to a thread-specific buffer > that it uses in paging. As I see it: all threads are created when the pager > starts up, and no threads are created afterward. Thus, I could achieve the > same result by using a hash to map between the thread handles and the > buffer pointers. Would this be a good idea/efficient? Mainly, I just want > your thoughts. But why doing that? It'd be simpler to just use a __thread variable. Samuel
