Re: Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:34:48 +0200
In message <4361FDBE.7000500_at_freebsd.org>, David Xu writes:

>Now, I can confirm mysqld calls time() function lots of time, I have
>changed time() to call clock_gettime, now there is few of gettimeofday 
>in ktrace result, but fully filled by clock_gettime.

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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