Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Benjamin LaHaise
2002-12-17T21:31:59Z

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:11:19AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > against 0xfffffxxx and "rollback" (or complete) any incomplete
> > gettimeofday call prior to saving a task's state. but i bet that test is
> > undesirable on all interrupt paths.
> >
>
> Exactly. This is a real problem.

No, just take the number of context switches before and after the attempt
to read the time of day.

-ben
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