Re: The end of embedded Linux?

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 11:20:13 EST

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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:02:33AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I don't buy this one. You are saying that the overhead of a procedure
> call is larger than the overhead of going out over the I/O bus to
> touch a device?

On slow CPUs like embedded 386es, yup. Remember, they don't always have a
cache.

-ben

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