Re: context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode linux]

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-08-05T05:38:35Z

Em Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 05:35:13AM +0000, Linus Torvalds escreveu:
> This will break _horribly_ when (if) glibc starts using SSE2 for things
> like memcpy() etc.

Humm, related, wasn't one way of having userspace have access to the kernel
optimized versions of memcpy et al, thru a page with these functions that would
be mapped into the process address space (don't remember exact details)
something still being considered?

- Arnaldo