> Now that Linus has killed the dragon and everybody seems happy with the
> shiny new SYSENTER code, let just add one more stupid question to this
> thread: has anyone made benchmarks on SYSCALL/SYSENTER/INT80 on Athlon? Is
> SYSCALL worth doing separately for Athlon (and perhaps Hammer/32-bit mode)?
Yes, the output of the programm Linus posted is on a Duron 750 with
2.5.53 like this:
igor3:~# ./a.out
187.894946 cycles (call 0xffffe000)
299.155075 cycles (int 80)
(cycles per getpid() call)
Christian Leber
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