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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:38:31PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > Yes, if you don't take advantage of sysenter, then all the sysenter
 > support will just make us look worse ;(

Andi's patch[1] to remove one of the wrmsr's from the context switch
fast path should win back at least some of the lost microbenchmark
points.  (Full info at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350)

		Dave

[1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=140&action=view

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