Thx. Got it. Any other solution to speed up the access to this variable ? It's location never changes from kernel init to shutdown if I haven't made that clear. --- Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:30:17PM -0800, Tinga > Shilo wrote: > > Hi, > > I am implementing a kernel mechanism which is > > very performance oriented. Along my long critical > > path, > > there is a static variable that needs to be > accessed > > quite a few times. This variable is a structure > which > > is approximately 60 bytes big. > > In there any way I can "convince" my kernel > (compiled > > with gcc) to access this variable using gp ? > > Is gp usually used for this purpose in mips-linux > ? > > Can it be ? > > > > No. gp is used by kernel to hold current process in > 2.4 > and current thread in 2.5. Don't mess with it > unless > you are absolutely sure what you are doing. > > Jun __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
