Assembly Syscall Question

[Shawn]

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 02:59, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Personally, I like to look at the Linux register-based passing
> mechanism in the same light that they look at the FreeBSD use
> of the MMU hardware to assist VM, at the cost of increased
> FreeBSD VM system complexity (i.e. they think our VM is too
> convoluted, and we think their system calls are too convoluted).

Maybe, but they also support a lot of MMU-less architectures, so it may
have made things simpler for them to not depend on MMU. I wonder if NUMA
had any bearing on that as well...

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