Re: lkwt in DragonFly

[David Xu <davidxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:00:19PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
> > There is one good reason why 1:1 would be useful: thread safety. There
> > are quite a few library functions which are not thread safe and will
> > never be. Those could use a static storage with is local to the current
> > process using the per-thread VM spaces.
>
>
> Thread local storage might be easier in 1:1, but it's not impractical in
> n:m.  It's on the KSE todo list for FreeBSD-5.3 (in the kse case it's
> required to make the Nvidia OpenGL implemenation work.)

I don't believe that FreeBSD can not avoid Nvidia OpenGL problem if 
kernel even can provide tls management for userland without %gs or %fs 
on i386.

> -- Brooks