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

[pageexec]

On 8 Jun 2011 at 8:55, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> 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.

let's see, we're talking about 100M or more cycles at least (being
generous here as my kernels here seem to take more on the order of
1G or more cycles). i'm pretty sure they're unable to measure single
cycle (or even 10 or a 100 cycle) improvements as well. but they're
welcome to prove me wrong ;).

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