Re: [announce, patch] Thread-Local Storage (TLS) support for

[Oleg Nesterov]

Hello.

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> > +      * Load the per-thread Thread-Local Storage descriptor.
> > +      *
> > +      * NOTE: it's faster to do the two stores unconditionally
> > +      * than to branch away.
> > +      */
> > +     load_TLS_desc(next, cpu);
> > +
> > +     /*
> >        * Save away %fs and %gs. No need to save %es and %ds, as
> 
> actually, shouldnt this be done after saving the current %fs and %gs, and
> before loading the next %fs and %gs?
> 
>         Ingo

Well, load_TLS() and saving current %fs,%gs are just mem stores, no?
I can't see any difference in terms of correctness.

Oleg.