Avi Kivity <[email protected]> writes:
>
> [I really doubt there are that many of these; syscall
> entry/dispatch/exit, interrupt dispatch, context switch, what else?]
Networking, block IO, page fault, ... But only the fast paths in these
cases. A lot of the kernel is slow path code and could probably
be written even in an interpreted language without much trouble.
-Andi
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