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by bonzini 1264 days ago
That's a very special case though since it's hardware optimized to work up to a cache line at a time, and not at all related to the syscall cost that was mentioned in the parent comment.
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The 5us was the setup time in order to be able to enter the sandbox. A system call is around 1us, but rarely used. So, in general the overhead of using the sandbox is around 5us, as everything else is pure workload.