Does Fedora kernel/glibc support sysenter

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Tue Oct 28 14:37:10 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 12:17, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> As the mechanism for system calls or does it use the int80 mechanism.
> Also, is there any benchmark program available which demonstrates how
> many cycles int80/sysenter take on a machine. I recollect Dave Jone's
> blog had some benchmark but can't find such a benchmark program

AFAIK, glibc 2.3.2 does supports both, int80 and sysenter. Also,
Fedora's kernel does also support sysenter.





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