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@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ sysenter improves our IPC performance by ~10%.
### Implementation
+One trouble with sysenter/sysexit (or the amd equivalent) isn't
+available on all processors. Linux solves this using the VDSO
+mechanism.
+
I'd like to implement something similar:
1. There is a platform dependent way to map a special page.