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* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > Applications call gettimeofday for a variety of reasons. One is because it > > is widely available over different platformsn and application want to > > schedule things, need timestamps etc etc. > > Accepted. But I still doubt that the number of calls to gettimeofday > is in anyway justified. The question I'm asking if it is really worth > a long and epic discussion about a single add instruction ? it is absolutely and emphatically not worth it. even in a hypothetical scenario [which this patchset is _not_ analogous to] where a new, clean subsystem introduces significant overhead, but the old subsystem is unclean, we frequently go with the new one - because it's so much easier to speed up something that is clean, robust and well-designed, than something that has been cobbled together! Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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