linux-kernel - Re: sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not?

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Message-Id: <20100113.202807.233259060.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:28:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, geert@...ux-m68k.org, acme@...hat.com,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not?

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:20:33 +1100

> Anything happening here ? We're getting that warning on ppc too despite
> the fact that we use socketcall like x86... Should checksyscall be made
> smarter or the syscall just removed from x86 ? :-)

I think it's better to trap directly to the system call rather
than going through yet another demultiplexer.

I severely regretted using sys_socketcall initially on sparc32
because it added a few microseconds to socket syscall latency
(cpus back then were slow :-)
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