Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance | Date | Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:10:50 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> said: > commence Horst von Brand quotation: > > > [Extremely interesting new syscall mechanism tread elided] > > > > What happened to "feature freeze"? > > How are system calls a new feature? Or is optimizing an existing > feature not allowed by your definition of "feature freeze"?
This "optimizing" is very much userspace-visible, and a radical change in an interface this fundamental counts as a new feature in my book. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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