Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755951AbYGAMGp (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:06:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753296AbYGAMGe (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:06:34 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:44719 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752623AbYGAMGd (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:06:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:06:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Roland McGrath , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Various x86 syscall mechanisms In-Reply-To: <485C4B0E.2090704@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <485C2875.2050204@goop.org> <485C4B0E.2090704@zytor.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 15 On Saturday 2008-06-21 02:27, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > There is no reason we couldn't do syscall for 32-bit native, but the only > processor that would benefit would be K7, and that's far enough in the past > that I don't think anyone cares enough. Well if it gives a speed improvement, I'd certainly care. I do not see a reason why I should throw away the K7 if it still works, even after 5 years lifetime. -- 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/