Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Dec 2002 03:05:10 +0100 | From | Christian Leber <> | Subject | Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance |
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
> 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)?
Yes, the output of the programm Linus posted is on a Duron 750 with 2.5.53 like this:
igor3:~# ./a.out 187.894946 cycles (call 0xffffe000) 299.155075 cycles (int 80)
(cycles per getpid() call)
Christian Leber
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