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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:59:51 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Mike Hayward <hayward@loup.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance
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Hi!

> > Any ideas?  Not sure I want to upgrade to the P7 architecture if this
> > is right, since for me system calls are probably more important than
> > raw cpu computational power.
> 
> This is the same for me. I'm extremely uninterested in the P-IV for my
> own use because of this.

Well, then you should fix the kernel so that syscalls are done by
sysenter (or how is it called).
								Pavel
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