On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Joseph S. Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > 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.
I didn't know that. Seems to be recent work, cfr. https://github.com/Xilinx/glibc/blob/master/ports/ChangeLog.m68k ? Where can I find the kernel changes? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMuHMdW+zp1=3Jpg2FVDEFD+B58iAO=8ibL=45rgsgy32s4...@mail.gmail.com
