From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: Confused about fsystemcalls
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:23:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805775@msgid-missing> (raw)
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:07:51 +1100, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:
Peter> The mygetpid() call appears to return the correct value.
Peter> Our figures show over an average of ten runs: --- glibc
Peter> getpid() takes 579 cycles, stddev 24 --- mygetpid takes 1468
Peter> cycles, stddev 286
Have you tried on a McKinley? The numbers you quote for the standard
getpid() look like for Merced. I never tried on Merced, though I
don't know of why it shouldn't work fast, off hand.
Peter> I was also a little confused about the entry put into the ELF
Peter> AUX vector -- was the value or the user-space address of
Peter> syscall_via_epc meant to go into the vector? Currently it
Peter> says in include/asm-ia64/elf.h
Oh, it was broken. I just fixed it today (since I got glibc to work
with the new syscall stub) and it's in the lia64 bk tree now.
--david
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2003-01-30 0:23 David Mosberger [this message]
2003-01-30 4:31 ` [Linux-ia64] Re: Confused about fsystemcalls Peter Chubb
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