Re: [PATCH] task_struct colouring ...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:40:55 +0000 (GMT)

> Looking at both the Manfred and Fujitsu patches I propose this new version
> for task struct colouring.
> The patch from Manfred is too architecture dependent ( cr2 ) and storing
> extra stuff in CPU registers is not IMHO a good idea.

Well the whole "current" handling is entirely architecture dependant anyway.
On most saner platforms current is a global register variable (the wonders
of gcc) and the whole problem simply isnt there
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