Pointer tagging for x86 systems
Pointer tagging for x86 systems
Posted Mar 28, 2022 17:10 UTC (Mon) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)Parent article: Pointer tagging for x86 systems
Pointer tagging is super useful, especially with 64-bit systems where plenty of bits are irrelevant. But while I'm always using the lower ones (and would love to abuse upper ones instead), I agree with Thomas and Andy that playing with the topmost one sounds particularly insane. And doing it per-cpu instead of per-task doesn't make it particularly appealing either.