Re: syscall messaging interface API

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 5:40PM, Peter da Silva wrote:

> David Leimbach wrote:
> >  Didn't the L4 folks find a way to make system calls on Pentiums 
> > without using
> > software interrupts?  Isn't this like 10x faster?
>
> The nice thing about the way Matt's designing the API is that you
> can change the mechanism for the system call and you only need to
> change the messageport send routines. So this kind of thing is more
> an implementation detail than a basic design decision.

Sure... that's why I brought it up.... Matt's design seems to shield us 
from the
backend which could use any optimal/reliable path.

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