On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:35:45AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >>We can have 3 type of pages mapped into one process's address map. > >>1. System wide global readonly page which will help on these syscalls: > >> gethostname,getdomainname,uname > >> help on importing sysenter as syscall entry point!! > >> > >>2. Per process Readonly page. (change will still through standard syscall) > >> help on the syscalls: > >> getuid, geteuid, getpid,getgid, getegid, getpgrp, > >> > >>3. As you planed, Read+Write Page > > I don't really understand this suggestion. > > Do any real programs call these syscalls very often? > If not, this is unnecessary complexity. Making > a syscall fast that's only called once doesn't really > help performance. > > This type of approach is sometimes suggested for systime(), > which could have a big impact, as there are real programs > that call systime() thousands of times per second. > But I find it hard to believe there are programs that > call getuid() that often. on the other hand, if there is a easy to use API for this I don't see why it should not be converted. I agree that speeding up a "function" that gets called just once doesn't make much sense but if it means 5minutes + 20lines patch I think its worth it. just my 2 cents romanReceived on Mon Apr 23 2007 - 15:44:01 UTC
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