On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:48:00 +0100 > And after all that's still by far the most common system call > (not only for databases; i profiled this using systemtap in some > loads some time ago and it usually came up with >50%) > and quite important for many workloads. >
btw be careful with this; the X server uses gettimeofday in it's equivalent of udelay()... (and we all know how useful it is to make the delay loops faster ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
