Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:48:50 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Consider your > > recent context switch claims. Yes, I believe that you can do the moral > > equiv of a longjmp() in the kernel in a few cycles, but that isn't a > > context switch, at least, it isn't the same a context switch in the > > operating system sense.
> A context switch in anoperating system context in it's simplest for is > > mov x, esp > mov esp, y
> > processes with virtual memory? > Yes.
Maybe you could tell us how long the context switch between processes with virtual memory takes, that would be a more meaningful comparison...
regards,
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