Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262618AbUCEPBW (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:01:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262619AbUCEPBV (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:01:21 -0500 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:2719 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262618AbUCEPBU (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:01:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:02:25 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Peter Zaitsev , Andrew Morton , riel@redhat.com, mbligh@aracnet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end) Message-ID: <20040305150225.GA13237@elte.hu> References: <20040228072926.GR8834@dualathlon.random> <20040229014357.GW8834@dualathlon.random> <1078370073.3403.759.camel@abyss.local> <20040303193343.52226603.akpm@osdl.org> <1078371876.3403.810.camel@abyss.local> <20040305103308.GA5092@elte.hu> <20040305141504.GY4922@dualathlon.random> <20040305143425.GA11604@elte.hu> <20040305145947.GA4922@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040305145947.GA4922@dualathlon.random> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner-4.26.8-itk2 SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.65 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 556 Lines: 15 * Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I thought time() wouldn't be called more than 1 per second anyways, > why would anyone call time more than 1 per second? if mysql in fact calls time() frequently, then it should rather start a worker thread that updates a global time variable every second. 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/