Hi Enrico...

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 03:42, Enrico Granata [off-list ref] wrote:

I modified the source code to show exactly how many clock ticks it is taking
for each call. It seems that the behavior hinted by Mauro Romano Trajber is
actually there:
[enrico at espresso ~]$ ./syscallperf 15
4925
1190
942

watching strace, objdump etc etc, I roughly conclude the high initial
tsc number might be due to initial symbol resolve to mygetpid() and/or
syscall() (IIRC this is called PLT/GOT symbol resolve).

After the GOT/PLT table had the syscall/mygetpid address, the rest went fast.

PS: if using gcc -O2, seems like mygetpid() is really inlined....

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