Re: Inefficient ia64 system call implementation in glibc

Andreas Schwab
2003-09-20T13:01:26Z

"Jim Hull" <jim.hull@hp.com> writes:

> But my real issue with the performance of this code is not with
> sign-extend or the scheduling these instructions, it's with the break
> instruction. I may be mistaken, but hasn't it been many months since
> David Mosberger implemented all the kernel infrastructure needed to
> support syscalls using the epc instruction?

It's only implemented in 2.6 so far.

Andreas.

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