> For most accesses to current, we are not interested in taking the
> address. The example you give is one of the few cases we _are_
> interested in the address, but we can speed up all other accesses to
> current by going through the kernel replacing current with __current
> in appropriate places.
>
> The above should already speed up the kernel _if_ the mapping scheme
> doesn't have weird cache effects etc. (don't know how efficient MIPS
> weirdo chips are at this stuff).
More efficient that anything Intel ever made :-) I don't ever get a TLB
fault for the kernel space, caches don't play games with me and I get the
current pointer for free anyway, so why should I map the current process'
task_struct at all ...
Ralf
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