xv6-riscv/notes/misc.md

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vDSO (7) - virtual (ELF) dynamic shared object

This library replaces some syscalls in order to get values from shared memory pages between all applications, preventing context switches and improving overall performances. Example: current time is the same for all applications, thus the time is written in a shared memory space that all applications can access at any time without sending a request to the kernel.