On 08/23/2011 01:56 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> But no, I don't think the difference has disappeared - to the contrary,
> AFAICT, the intention is for SYSCALL to be the fastest way to do
> syscalls on x86 due to diminished number of segment checks etc. INT80
> is legacy, slower, etc. I believe Andy measured a similar situation on
> Sandy Bridge with SYSCALL having latencies in the tens of nsecs range
> and INT80 being much slower. Ingo also measured a similar situation
> where the latency gap between the two on Intel is even bigger.
>
Sandy Bridge doesn't have SYSCALL32 at all. It has SYSENTER and SYSCALL64.
-hpa
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