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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:44:12 +0100
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> We could have just made a trivial system call ("get the thread-local
> pointer" from the kernel stack), but obviously there are performance
> issues here.

just one?  surely another 32 or 64 ...