On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 02:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > But on my system gettimeofday uses the TSC and it's still ~35x slower
> > than RDTSC:
> >
> > rlrevell@mindpipe:~$ ./timetest
> > rdtsc: 10000 calls in 1079 usecs
> > gettimeofday: 10000 calls in 36628 usecs
>
> First if you run this on an Athlon 64 the measurement is likely
> wrong because RDTSC can be speculated around. To get accurate
> data you need to add synchronizing instructions.
>
OK. Just for reference here's what people on the JACK list reported:
2.6.14-rt13, PREEMPT_RT, Athlon X2 4400+ (dual core)
rdtsc: 10000 calls in 68 usecs
gettimeofday: 10000 calls in 5170 usecs
[email protected]/HT (OpenSUSE 10.0 2.6.13-15-smp):
rdtsc: 10000 calls in 253 usecs
gettimeofday: 10000 calls in 26547 usecs
> Then you're likely running 32bit. It doesn't use vsyscall gettimeofday
> yet, which makes it slower. 64bit would.
Yes, I am. So it sounds like vsyscall gettimeofday for i386 is in the
works?
Lee
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