linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls

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Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:55:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho 
	<tuliom@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Larsson <alexl@...hat.com>,
	Cosimo Cecchi <cosimo@...lessm.com>,
	Dan Nicholson <nicholson@...lessm.com>,
	libc-alpha <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
	Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls

On 09/14/2015 06:35 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> I missed sys_ipc entirely.
>>
>> Ingo, Thomas, want to just wire those up, too?  I can send a patch
>> next week, but it'll be as trivial as the socket one.
> 
> Yeah, sure - split out system calls are so much better (and slightly faster) than 
> omnibus demuxers.
> 

Indeed.  sys_socketcall and sys_ipc are legacy mistakes.

	-hpa


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