[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 17/44] Add nosegneg capability to the vsyscall page notes
Rusty Russell wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:15 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> plain text document attachment (xen-vsyscall-note.patch) >> Add the "nosegneg" fake capabilty to the vsyscall page notes. This is >> used by the runtime linker to select a glibc version which then >> disables negative-offset accesses to the thread-local segment via >> %gs. These accesses require emulation in Xen (because segments are >> truncated to protect the hypervisor address space) and avoiding them >> provides a measurable performance boost. >> > > Hmm, this is still unconditional? Not that it causes any measurable > slowdown when enabled, but ISTR discussing making this dynamic... Played with it for a bit, but it's fairly fiddly. Didn't seem like it was worth the complexity. J _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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