Scott Long wrote: > I was the last to work on the patch, and that was about a year or so > ago. It worked fine under fairly simple processes, but trying to run > things like KDE and Mozilla made it blow up fairly quickly. I suspect > that it has something to do with thread upcalls, but I never got around > to figuring it out. If someone wants to pick it up, that would be > great. Note that this only matters for i386; amd64 has always had its > own version of sysenter that it uses. As far as I know, amd64 uses the SYSCALL instruction, which I believe, should have about the same performance as SYSENTER. --SuleimanReceived on Sat Jan 14 2006 - 18:36:05 UTC
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