Re: [PATCH v5 8/9] x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Jun 08 2011 - 01:55:30 EST


On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:24 AM, <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> to give you an idea:
> - if a code path executes in 1M or 1K cycles once every hour, then
>  it's not a fast path, it doesn't matter to anyone whether it runs
>  1 or 10 cycles faster or not,

I'm pretty sure people who try to optimize kernel boot times, for
example, don't agree with you.

Pekka
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