Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:15:15 +0000 | Subject | Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree | From | Keir Fraser <> |
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On 8/3/07 08:01, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> you are obsessed with avoiding a hypercall, but why? Granted it's slow > especially on things like SVN/VMX, but it's not fundamentally slow. We > definitely do not want to design our whole APIs and abstractions around > the temporary notion that 'hypercalls are slow'. I'd expect hypercalls > to be put into silicon just as much as SYSENTER was put into silicon.
If syscalls are already so fast, why does Linux have vgettimeofday()?
-- Keir
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