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From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: smp overhead, and rwlocks considered harmful
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:58:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> I've been looking at the CPU cost of the write() system call.  Time how long
> it takes to write a million bytes to an ext2 file, via a million
> one-byte-writes:

Are you using a sysenter-capable C library?
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