Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

[Mark Mielke]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:17:59PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Sure it's dirty. It's also fast, with the only overhead being
> > a few NOPs that could get skipped on syscall return anyway.
> > Patching overhead is negligible, since it only happens when a
> > page is brought in fresh from the disk.
> Yes but "read only" code changing under you... Should better be
> avoided.

Programs that self verify their own CRC may get a little confused (are
there any of these left?), but other than that, 'goto is better avoided'
as well, but sometimes 'goto' is the best answer.

> > The vsyscall stuff costs you on every syscall. It's nice for
> Well, the cost is basically one call. That's not *that* big cost.

Time for benchmarks... :-)

mark

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