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On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:26:09PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > Now that NPTL etc. have settled, I'd like to renew the effort in > getting the new system call stubs supported on ia64. As you may > recall, the new syscall stubs are designed to support light-weight > system calls (by taking advantage of the EPC instruction). The > light-weight syscalls can yield huge performance improvements. For > example, gettimeofday() and sigprocmask() run about 3 times faster as > lightweight syscalls. > > What I'd like to see is something that makes it possible for > non-threaded and NPTL apps to take advantage of the new syscall stubs. > If LinuxThreads apps don't get the benefit, that's OK, I suppose. > > Does this sound reasonable? If so, how should I go about this? > Should I re-send the (forward-ported) version of the original patch > that I did so you can see what's involved? Any other suggestions? Yes, please post a forward ported complete tested patch (the last version of the patch I and Ulrich saw was incomplete (but lead to discovery of a linker bug)). NPTL is now in sources CVS, so things are way easier for diffing... Thanks. Jakub
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