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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 - 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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