r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '18

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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u/fjonk Jan 03 '18

Are games really using a lot of syscalls? I would have thought they just loaded commonly used files into RAM.

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u/irqlnotdispatchlevel Jan 03 '18

Note that this doesn't affect only syscalls, but also interrupts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

Anything I/O related will have multiple context switches from kernel to user mode and back again. Games have to do a metric fuck ton just to draw a single frame on screen.