Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module | Date | Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:08:11 -0400 (EDT) |
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David Howells writes:
> I've done an implementation of some of the Win32 "system calls" > in a kernel module in an attempt to speed up Wine.
Oh my. How dare you! I like it. :-)
> The preliminary benchmarks that I made, while not very real-world > since I don't think I have managed to implement enough for that yet, > seem to indicate that in some tests, I can beat Win2000 by 20% on > syscall latency, and Wine by 900%.
If you implement enough to run the common Windows benchmarks, we can have loads of fun.
> Other methods that have been mentioned include persuading Linus to > reserve a syscall number specifically for this purpose, and having > the module supply a handler for it.
If this stuff isn't too insane, just make it available for all software to use. That includes regular SPARC Linux executables, etc. Use a regular system call without a module. I suppose you ought to have a config option if this gets to be over 200 kB of bloat. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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