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diff --git a/open_issues/system_call_mechanism.mdwn b/open_issues/system_call_mechanism.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5598148c --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/system_call_mechanism.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_gnumach]] + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-05-07 + + <braunr> very simple examples: system calls use old call gates, which are + the slowest path to kernel space + <braunr> modern processors have dedicated instructions now |