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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: P@draigBrady.com
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, mingo@elte.hu, andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: gettimeofday scalability
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:35:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041005113512.45ab0a31.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4162CD76.4070204@draigBrady.com>

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:36:06 +0100
P@draigBrady.com wrote:

> So can anyone summarise the relative merits of these locking
> mechanisms, before I start benchmarking?

Seq locks plus the timer interpolator layer found in 2.6.x kernels
is the most scalable gettimeofday() implementation currently.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-05 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 16:36 gettimeofday scalability P
2004-10-05 18:35 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-10-05 18:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-05 18:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-05 19:16   ` P
2004-10-05 19:35     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-05 19:18 ` Ingo Molnar

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