On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Jason Thorpe wrote:

>
> On Mar 11, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>
> > Ok, this just leaves the vax (not supporting syscall_intern()). Can
> > someone step up to the plate and fix this?
>
> So, did anyone benchmark the VAX change?  Seems like there is a good
> chance that it will be fair bit faster, since function calls are so
> expensive on the VAX...

vlc$ /usr/pkg/bin/lmbench/lat_syscall null
Simple syscall: 41.3667 microseconds


vlc$ /usr/pkg/bin/lmbench/lat_syscall null
Simple syscall: 29.8835 microseconds


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