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by amluto
3403 days ago
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They're fast because x86 has a decently fast privilege change mechanism for system calls and Linux works fairly hard to avoid doing unnecessary work to handle them. In the simplest case, registers are saved, a function is called, regs are restored, and the kernel switches back to user mode. The asm code is fairly straightforward in Linux these days. I'm proud of it. :) |
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