Re: Differences between FreeBSD and Linux system call mechanism

Terry Lambert (tlambert@primenet.com)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:12:06 +0000 (GMT)


> lmbench gives very precise accurate performance figures for the things
> it benches - in this case things like null syscall and the affects of
> the kernel cache footprint.
>
> When you are discussing syscall timing its syscall timing microbenchmark
> is not suprisingly very accurate

What's a null system call; one that returns ENOSYS?

Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org

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