From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)
Date: 28 Apr 2001 22:13:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cg7t7$gbt$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104281752290.10866-100000@localhost.localdomain> <20010428215301.A1052@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <200104282256.f3SMuRW15999@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
Followup to: <200104282256.f3SMuRW15999@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
By author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > In x86-64 there are special vsyscalls btw to solve this problem that export
> > a lockless kernel gettimeofday()
>
> Whatever happened to that hack that was discussed a year or two ago?
> The one where (also on IA32) a magic page was set up by the kernel
> containing code for fast system calls, and the kernel would write
> calibation information to that magic page. The code written there
> would use the TSC in conjunction with that calibration data.
>
> There was much discussion about this idea, even Linus was keen on
> it. But IIRC, nothing ever happened.
>
We discussed this at the Summit, not a year or two ago. x86-64 has
it, and it wouldn't be too bad to do in i386... just noone did.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-29 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-28 15:52 X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd) Ingo Molnar
2001-04-28 19:53 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-28 22:56 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 5:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-04-29 11:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-29 11:27 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-29 13:32 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-29 18:48 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 18:55 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-04-29 19:02 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 19:47 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-04-29 19:54 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 20:11 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-29 20:18 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-04-29 22:20 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-30 0:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-29 20:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-04-29 22:18 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-30 16:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-29 19:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-29 23:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-29 16:21 ` dean gaudet
2001-04-29 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-29 22:29 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-29 21:16 ` Jim Gettys
2001-04-29 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-29 21:47 ` Jim Gettys
2001-05-02 18:18 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-05-02 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-02 20:55 ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-04-30 7:02 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-30 7:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-30 7:51 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-30 14:56 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-04-30 8:42 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 7:13 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-03 7:44 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-03 10:37 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-03 15:44 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-05-07 19:04 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 9:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-07 19:03 ` vsyscalls [was Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)] Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 12:23 ` X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd) Helge Hafting
2001-05-03 19:09 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 19:50 ` agrawal
2001-05-07 19:07 ` vsyscallRe: " Pavel Machek
2001-05-03 20:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 20:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-05-04 8:06 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-04 17:31 ` dean gaudet
2001-05-04 8:43 ` bert hubert
2001-05-02 10:52 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-02 10:53 ` Ingo Molnar
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