From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932231AbVHKCoH (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:44:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932235AbVHKCoH (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:44:07 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:45957 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932231AbVHKCoG (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:44:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5) From: Lee Revell To: john stultz Cc: lkml , George Anzinger , frank@tuxrocks.com, Anton Blanchard , benh@kernel.crashing.org, Nishanth Aravamudan , Roman Zippel , Ulrich Windl In-Reply-To: <1123727994.32531.62.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1123723279.30963.267.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1123726394.32531.33.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1123727560.30850.1.camel@mindpipe> <1123727994.32531.62.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:44:04 -0400 Message-Id: <1123728244.30850.5.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 19:39 -0700, john stultz wrote: > Ah, I've got a patch on my laptop that takes that down to ~2% or less. > I didn't include it in this patch set but I'll work to get it > integrated before the next release. Sorry about that. > > If you have any suggestions for further performance improvements, > please let me know. 2% sounds reasonable to me. I just don't think we can afford 20% because so many stupid apps bang on gettimeofday() constantly. Lee