Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903272254460.12518 at fledge.watson.org>, Robert Wats
on writes:

>I guess interesting questions are whether (a) it would be desirable to have 
>per-page, per-cpu, or per-thread mappings.  If there are non-synchronized 
>TSCs, then there might be some interesting advantages to a per-CPU page.

Rule #3:
	The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is
	generalizing from no examples at all.

We can add those mappings when we know why we would want them.


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