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Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libthread_xu Makefile pthread.map src/lib/libthread_xu/arch Makefile.inc src/lib/libthread_xu/arch/alpha Makefile.inc src/lib/libthread_xu/arch/alpha/alpha pthread_md.c src/lib/libthread_xu/arch/alpha/include pthread_md.h src/lib/libthread_xu/arch/amd64 ...


To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: davidxu <davidxu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:08:19 +0800

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:14:47PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:

:This is an optimisation for the intra-program switch if you want to call it so.
:I would argue that the normal switch case is either user -> kernel or to
:a different kernel thread.

You pretty much always want to have just a single page table with a
threaded program. The %cr3 optimization is a nice plus, but it isn't
why the page table is being shared. The page table is being shared
because trying to build a threaded program WITHOUT sharing the page
table is extremely expensive. Every time you'd allocate memory or map
something it would have to be replicated across N page tables. Performance would be destroyed.


But you can still share most parts of the page table, if you exploit
the two level approach.

Yes, you can rewrite a pte, but an invlpg intruction is very expensive!
remember you have to operate TLB, which should be avoided in most time.

Joerg


-Matt



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