Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:35:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:35:55 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:23570 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:35:54 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:43:48 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: William Lee Irwin III , Pavel Machek , Mike Hayward , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance Message-ID: <20021215224348.GA30159@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <200212090830.gB98USW05593@flux.loup.net> <20021213154544.GK9882@holomorphy.com> <20021215215951.GA6347@elf.ucw.cz> <20021215223703.GA2690@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021215223703.GA2690@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 26 Hi! > >> 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 > > ABI is immutable. I actually run apps at home. Perhaps that one killer app can be recompiled? > sysenter is also unusable for low-level loss-of-state reasons mentioned > elsewhere in this thread. Well, disabling v86 may be well wroth it :-). Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - 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/