Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:23:19 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end) |
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* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > if mysql in fact calls time() frequently, then it should rather start a > > worker thread that updates a global time variable every second. > > I just fixed the x86-64 vsyscall vtime() to only read the user mapped > __xtime.tv_sec. This should be equivalent. [...]
yeah - nice!
> [...] Only drawback is that if a timer tick is delayed for too long it > won't fix that, but I guess that's reasonable for a 1s resolution.
what do you mean by delayed?
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