On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:15:08 -0700 Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:09:46 +0200 > Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Monday 25 June 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > the patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly: > > > > Has that any real practical relevance? > > Interesting question. The patch adds a new test-n-branch to gettimeofday() > so if gettimeofday() is used much more frequently than time(), we lose. Isn't gettimeofday() called *lots* by the X server and programs - one of the reasons we bother putting it in the VDSO. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [email protected] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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