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

From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:43:53 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, David Xu wrote:

> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>>> On the other hand, a lower risk change might be to simply add a new 
>>> CLOCK_ type for lower resolution, and have a timer synchronize a 
>>> variable to the system clock once every 1/10 of a second.  This avoids 
>>> having to muck with VM layout, etc.
>> 
>> Is the CLOCK_* namespace ours to muck about with in the first place ?
>> 
> I prefer this way, can you implement it? The global page idea is a 
> complex, someone can slowly work on it, there are many things can be 
> done, for example, fast syscall using sysenter/sysexit.

I'm happy to take a stab at this.

We still need someone to grab the context switch time keeping by the horns 
and Do Something, though.

Robert N M Watson
Received on Fri Oct 28 2005 - 11:43:55 UTC

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