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by cwzwarich
2269 days ago
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No, it doesn't circumvent context switching to the kernel. With memory protection and separate address spaces, you generally need privileged execution to change page tables. However, the raw CPU cost of a syscall exception to the kernel followed by an exception return to userspace isn't actually all that high compared to all of the work that an OS usually does on top of it. |
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