Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2002-12-18T05:26:20Z

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 09:55, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Uli, how about I just add one ne warchitecture-specific ELF AT flag, which
> is the "base of sysinfo page". Right now that page is all zeroes except
> for the system call trampoline at the beginning, but we might want to add
> other system information to the page in the future (it is readable, after
> all).

The P4 optimisation guide promises horrible things if you write within
2k of a cached instruction from another CPU (it dumps the whole trace
cache, it seems), so you'd need to be careful about mixing mutable data
and the syscall code in that page.

Immutable data should be fine.

J