Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1

David Xu davidxu at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 28 06:26:08 PDT 2005


Bernd Walter wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:43:10PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
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>>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>>>In message <4361FDBE.7000500 at freebsd.org>, David Xu writes:
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>>>the correct way to optimize this would be to add a time(2) systemcall
>>>which returns the value of the kernel global time_second.
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>>Can we make a page in kernel address space which is readable my user
>>code? put the variable in the page, I know read an integer is atomic-op,
>>needn't lock, so syscall is not needed.
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>Don't whink it is importent for 1s intervalls, but atomic != coherent.
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That's just an idea. :-)
As robert said, add a lower resolution CLOCK_ type  may work well.
Another thing I just though of, if reading timercounter is so slow, won't
gettimeofday hardly block cpu too many cycles ? the cpu is just stucked
there by a slow clock in hardware signals.



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