Re: [PATCH] syscall latency improvement #1

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 21:39:24 EST

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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:

> The real fix for that would be support of SYSENTER/SYSCALL on 32bit too
> (more likely SYSENTER because it's supported by Athlons and SYSCALL is too
> broken on K6 to be usable)

There's an implementation at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/sysenter.c
Haven't looked at it long enough to see how good/bad it is..

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