> > 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
So You like the idea of stocking structure pointers inside CPU registers
or I missed Your point ?
The proposed implementation is "uniform" between architectures, that's my
point.
What for CPUs that cannot offer "free" registers ?
What if someone else, following the example, start stocking some other
pointer in free registers ?
- Davide
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