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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux?
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:02:33AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I don't buy this one.  You are saying that the overhead of a procedure
> call is larger than the overhead of going out over the I/O bus to
> touch a device?

On slow CPUs like embedded 386es, yup.  Remember, they don't always have a 
cache.

		-ben
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