Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Ulrich Drepper
2002-12-17T19:45:42Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>

> The only ones I found from a quick grep are
> - sys_recvfrom
> - sys_sendto
> - sys_mmap2()
> - sys_ipc()

All but mmap2 do not use 6 parameters. They are implemented via the
sys_ipc multiplexer which takes the stack pointer as an argument which
then helps to locate the parameters.

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