Re: [announce, patch] Thread-Local Storage (TLS) support for Linux,

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:08:19 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> + * Load the per-thread Thread-Local Storage descriptor.
> + *
> + * NOTE: it's faster to do the two stores unconditionally
> + * than to branch away.
> + */
> + load_TLS_desc(next, cpu);
> +
> + /*
> * Save away %fs and %gs. No need to save %es and %ds, as

actually, shouldnt this be done after saving the current %fs and %gs, and
before loading the next %fs and %gs?

Ingo

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