Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:43:48 +0100 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance |
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Hi!
> >> This is the same for me. I'm extremely uninterested in the P-IV for my > >> own use because of this. > > > Well, then you should fix the kernel so that syscalls are done by > > sysenter (or how is it called). > > Pavel > > ABI is immutable. I actually run apps at home.
Perhaps that one killer app can be recompiled?
> sysenter is also unusable for low-level loss-of-state reasons mentioned > elsewhere in this thread.
Well, disabling v86 may be well wroth it :-). Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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