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From: <cutaway@bellsouth.net>
To: "Florin Malita" <fmalita@gmail.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6 speed
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:55:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <012401c591a6$9a2e2040$0b00000a@solidwaste> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f8994115050724211071a3dbe1@mail.gmail.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Florin Malita" <fmalita@gmail.com>
To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6 speed


> On 7/24/05, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > time() isn't a hot
> > path in the real world.
>
> That's what you would expect but I've straced stuff calling
> gettimeofday() in huge bursts every other second. Obviously braindead
> stuff but so is "the real world" most of the time() ... :)

Anything time stamping things it processes many of will call some sort of
time function pretty often.  Could happen frequently with certain classes of
applications.    OS/2's "infoseg" approach was a pretty "high speed low
drag" way to eliminate a trip into the kernel for all but the most esoteric
time requirements.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-24 19:12 kernel 2.6 speed Ciprian
2005-07-24 19:41 ` Brice Goglin
2005-07-24 19:47 ` Dag Nygren
2005-07-24 20:40 ` Puneet Vyas
2005-07-24 21:03 ` Florin Malita
2005-07-24 22:49   ` Lee Revell
2005-07-25 19:52     ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-24 21:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-24 23:47 ` Alan Cox
2005-07-25  4:10   ` Florin Malita
2005-07-25  5:18     ` Willy Tarreau
2005-07-25  6:47     ` Ciprian
2005-07-26  5:55     ` cutaway [this message]
2005-07-26 19:45       ` Florin Malita
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-03 15:31 Henrik Holst

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