Re: [ANNOUNCE] ktimers subsystem

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:24 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> > We should rather ask glibc people why gettimeofday() / clock_getttime()
> > is called inside the library code all over the place for non obvious
> > reasons.
> 
> You can ask lots of application vendors the same question because its all 
> over lots of user space code. The fact is that gettimeofday() / 
> clock_gettime() efficiency is very critical to the performance of many 
> applications on Linux. That is why the addtion of one add instruction may 
> better be carefully considered. 

Hmm. I don't understand the argument line completely. 

1. The kernel has to provide ugly mechanisms because a lot of
applications implementations are doing the Wrong Thing ?

2. All gettimeofday implementations I have looked at do a lot of math
anyway, so its definitely more interesting to look at those oddities
rather than discussing a single add. John Stulz timeofday rework have a
clean solution for this - please do not argue about the div64 in his
original patches which he is reworking at the moment.

> Many platforms can execute gettimeofday 
> without having to enter the kernel.

Which ones ? How is this achieved with respect to all the time adjust,
correction... code ?

tglx


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