Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > 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. > > --Suleiman > Actually, the AMD SYSCALL command is a heck of a lot easier to use since it doesn't make as many assumptions about segment descriptors. ScottReceived on Sat Jan 14 2006 - 19:02:53 UTC
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