With this redising in the kernel, every time a program makes a call into the kernel that call will be a little more "expensive". Disk i/o, sending data to the network, opening a file, setting and reading time, device management... If a program does nothing but system calls (like benchmarks) it will take twice as long. Programs that don't make calls that much, maybe 2-3%. Servers maybe 20-30%.
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