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DateTue, 17 Dec 2002 11:21:53 -0800
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
>>But this is exactly what I expect to happen.  If you want to implement
>>gettimeofday() at user-level you need to modify the page.
> 
> Note that I really don't think we ever want to do the user-level
> gettimeofday(). The complexity just argues against it, it's better to try
> to make system calls be cheap enough that you really don't care.
> 

Let's see... it works fine on UP and on *most* SMP, and on the ones
where it doesn't work you just fill in a system call into the vsyscall
slot.  It just means that gettimeofday() needs a different vsyscall slot.

	-hpa

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