Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:33:37 +0100 (MET) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | 2.5 SYSENTER context-switch overhead on P4 :-( |
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I've measured the cost of the two wrmsr()'s added to the context-switch path to support SYSENTER in 2.5 kernels. Here's the data (clock cycles, averaged):
CPU wrmsr only only type both cs esp ---- ---- --- --- P4 2.4GHz (Xeon) 1722 860 863 P4 1.7GHz (Willamette) 1642 816 817 P3 800MHz (Coppermine) 158 76 76 P3 450MHz (Katmai) 216 105 105 P2 233MHz (Deschutes) 176 88 88 P2 233MHz (Klamath) 150 75 75
The other implementation with keeps the MSRs constant and uses a trampoline stack might be a better alternative.
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