Re: [PATCH] syscall latency improvement #1

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 20:24:16 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> Looking at the code, I suspect that 99.9% of this "improvement" comes from
> one thing, and one thing only: you removed the "cli" in the system call
> return path.

It doesn't explain the Athlon speedups. On athlon cli is ~4 cycles.

-Andi
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