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List:       freebsd-arch
Subject:    Re: Why use `thread' as an argument of Syscalls?
From:       "Attilio Rao" <attilio () freebsd ! org>
Date:       2006-06-05 17:26:53
Message-ID: 3bbf2fe10606051026k7a9bcba4udea9ce369fea6ce4 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2006/6/5, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>:
> It would be a good Junior Kernel Hacker project to try to replace
> these passed arguments with curproc and see if a measurable difference
> in performance is obtained.

There's another thing to consider: having an argument-passing
structure, will improve 'reentrancy' of the kernel.

Attilio


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