From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261583AbVGYEKa (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:10:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261604AbVGYEK3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:10:29 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.204]:35952 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261583AbVGYEKY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:10:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dJnyUrDwT1G4YnNB4ARa4KFN70VCYanhAVBIdo9rdXfwmrBYVDRGvCV0Z0im123duqf2yLdqxk6b6JMS7T5BLo5LpFog4TNdludv8dhCcS3So6Xox/POY6r83caZ/BdeFrBJqFP75ak2Pa4svE8/knRT/s0Yl8auHIYR9RHN8Ko= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:10:15 -0400 From: Florin Malita Reply-To: Florin Malita To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel 2.6 speed In-Reply-To: <1122248869.10835.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050724191211.48495.qmail@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> <1122248869.10835.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/24/05, Alan Cox 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() ... :)