Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:20:13 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: The end of embedded Linux? |
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:02:33AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > I don't buy this one. You are saying that the overhead of a procedure > call is larger than the overhead of going out over the I/O bus to > touch a device?
On slow CPUs like embedded 386es, yup. Remember, they don't always have a cache.
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