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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


             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-30  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-30  0:23 David Mosberger [this message]
2003-01-30  4:31 ` [Linux-ia64] Re: Confused about fsystemcalls Peter Chubb
2003-01-30  4:39 ` David Mosberger

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