Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:30:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:30:06 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:64431 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:30:05 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:37:03 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Pavel Machek Cc: Mike Hayward , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance Message-ID: <20021215223703.GA2690@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Pavel Machek , Mike Hayward , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200212090830.gB98USW05593@flux.loup.net> <20021213154544.GK9882@holomorphy.com> <20021215215951.GA6347@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021215215951.GA6347@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 24 At some point in the past, I wrote: >> This is the same for me. I'm extremely uninterested in the P-IV for my >> own use because of this. On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:59:51PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, then you should fix the kernel so that syscalls are done by > sysenter (or how is it called). > Pavel ABI is immutable. I actually run apps at home. sysenter is also unusable for low-level loss-of-state reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Nice try, though. Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/