Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:45:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:45:42 -0500 Received: from cpe-24-221-190-179.ca.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.190.179]:7605 "EHLO myware.akkadia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:45:41 -0500 Message-ID: <3DFF80BC.2020709@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:53:32 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021216 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Matti Aarnio , Hugh Dickins , Dave Jones , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@transmeta.com Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 24 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The only ones I found from a quick grep are > - sys_recvfrom > - sys_sendto > - sys_mmap2() > - sys_ipc() All but mmap2 do not use 6 parameters. They are implemented via the sys_ipc multiplexer which takes the stack pointer as an argument which then helps to locate the parameters. -- --------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--------------------------- - 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/