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Re: What is vDSO?

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  When I compiled my kernel today I noticed:
>
>   INSTALL vdso32-int80.so
>   INSTALL vdso32-sysenter.so

don't these have to do with syscall implementation on x86 machines ?
with int80 being the old s/w interrupt mechanism which was
found(http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/12/9/13) to be much slower than
sysenter/sysexit available on p4's.

feel free to correct me if i am wrong.

anupam

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