On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Finn Thain wrote: > Losing a register also hurts performance. Someone suggested moving > get/set_thread_area to a VDSO (as well as the atomic ops). As I understand > it, this need not break the ABI and should be faster than the TLS system > calls.
The vDSO support has been there in glibc ever since the NPTL port was first added. I've no idea why the kernel changes still haven't gone in. -- Joseph S. Myers [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
