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From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>,
	osd@cs.unibo.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2-ptrace_multi
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 15:38:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44705F38.10905@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060520213959.GA4229@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

Jeff Dike wrote:
>> PTRACE_MULTI can be also used to optimize many other virtualized calls,
>> e.g. to read/write all the buffers for a readv/writev/recvmsg/sendmsg
>> call at once.
>>     
>
> Here, I bet the data copying cost dominates the system call, and the
> syscall overhead is minimal.	

In addition, the aio API allows you to do that in two calls for an iovec 
of any size.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-21 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-18 15:53 ptrace enhancements for VM support (patch proposals follow in sep.msgs) Renzo Davoli
2006-05-18 15:56 ` [PATCH] 1-access_process_vm_user Renzo Davoli
2006-05-18 15:58 ` [PATCH] 2-ptrace_multi Renzo Davoli
2006-05-18 20:17   ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-18 21:13     ` Renzo Davoli
2006-05-19  2:23       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-05-19  9:07         ` Renzo Davoli
2006-05-19 13:09           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-19 17:45             ` Renzo Davoli
2006-05-19 19:15               ` Renzo Davoli
2006-05-19 20:15               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-19 20:17                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-20  6:44                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-05-20 14:37                   ` Alan Cox
2006-05-20 18:30                     ` Renzo Davoli
2006-05-20 20:23                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-05-20 21:39                       ` Jeff Dike
2006-05-21 12:38                         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2006-05-21 15:28                         ` Renzo Davoli
2006-05-22 13:02                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-22 15:05                             ` Renzo Davoli
2006-05-22 15:26                               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-18 16:07 ` [PATCH] 3-ptrace_vm Renzo Davoli
2006-05-21  8:03 ` ptrace enhancements for VM support (patch proposals follow in sep.msgs) Peter Chubb

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