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On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > > SYSCALL is AMD. SYSENTER is Intel, and is likely to be significantly > Now that Linus has killed the dragon and everybody seems happy with the > shiny new SYSENTER code, let just add one more stupid question to this > thread: has anyone made benchmarks on SYSCALL/SYSENTER/INT80 on Athlon? Is > SYSCALL worth doing separately for Athlon (and perhaps Hammer/32-bit mode)? Its something I wondered about too. Even if it isn't a win for K7, it's possible that the K6 family may benefit from SYSCALL support. Maybe even the K5 if it was around that early ? (too lazy to check pdf's) Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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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