Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 06:22:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 06:22:16 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:59843 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 06:22:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:29:11 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Ville Herva , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance Message-ID: <20021230112911.GB11633@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Ville Herva , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200212090830.gB98USW05593@flux.loup.net> <20021209193649.GC10316@suse.de> <20021228203706.GD1258@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021228203706.GD1258@niksula.cs.hut.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 22 On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > > SYSCALL is AMD. SYSENTER is Intel, and is likely to be significantly > Now that Linus has killed the dragon and everybody seems happy with the > shiny new SYSENTER code, let just add one more stupid question to this > thread: has anyone made benchmarks on SYSCALL/SYSENTER/INT80 on Athlon? Is > SYSCALL worth doing separately for Athlon (and perhaps Hammer/32-bit mode)? Its something I wondered about too. Even if it isn't a win for K7, it's possible that the K6 family may benefit from SYSCALL support. Maybe even the K5 if it was around that early ? (too lazy to check pdf's) Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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/