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Now that NPTL etc. have settled, I'd like to renew the effort in getting the new system call stubs supported on ia64. As you may recall, the new syscall stubs are designed to support light-weight system calls (by taking advantage of the EPC instruction). The light-weight syscalls can yield huge performance improvements. For example, gettimeofday() and sigprocmask() run about 3 times faster as lightweight syscalls. What I'd like to see is something that makes it possible for non-threaded and NPTL apps to take advantage of the new syscall stubs. If LinuxThreads apps don't get the benefit, that's OK, I suppose. Does this sound reasonable? If so, how should I go about this? Should I re-send the (forward-ported) version of the original patch that I did so you can see what's involved? Any other suggestions? Thanks, --david
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