Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

[H. Peter Anvin]

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> The stubs I used for the vsyscall bits just did an absolute jump to 
> the vsyscall page, which would then do a ret to the original calling 
> userspace code (since that provided library symbols for the user to 
> bind against).
> 

What kind of "absolute jumps" were this?

	-hpa