> who's looked at this. Tor Egge, he has been very helpful during the development of the code. The pmap change was a result of discussions with him.
> It looks to me that this is serious stuff.... > spliting the pmap out of the vmspace structure is a big change. > caertainly a logical move but requires checking.. > > I guess it should be refered to the VM cabal. > > I presume that this is to be done in conjunction with the linuxthreads > (and native threads) code already committed... > > What exactly is the reason for separating them? > First, pmap is not split out of vmspace structure, it's just a trick to keep struct kinfo_proc constant size (i.e. independent of NCPU), vmspace_alloc() has been changed to allocate sizeof(struct vmspace)+sizeof(struct pmap) amount of space and pmap lives at the bottom half. > julian > -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
