Re: More breakage in native_rdtsc out of line in git-x86

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:48:00 +0100
> And after all that's still by far the most common system call
> (not only for databases; i profiled this using systemtap in some
> loads some time ago and it usually came up with >50%) 
> and quite important for many workloads.
> 

btw be careful with this; the X server uses gettimeofday in it's equivalent of udelay()...
(and we all know how useful it is to make the delay loops faster ;-)
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