Subject: Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high
	end)
From: Peter Zaitsev <peter@mysql.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:15, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Zaitsev <peter@mysql.com> writes:
> >
> > Rather than changing design how time is computed I think we would better
> > to go to better accuracy - nowadays 1 second is far too raw.
> 
> Just call gettimeofday(). In near all kernels time internally does that
> anyways.

Right, 

gettimeofday() was much slower some years ago on some other Unix
Platform, which is why time() was used instead.

Now we just need to fix a lot of places (datatypes, prints etc) to move
to gettimeofday()


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Peter Zaitsev, Senior Support Engineer
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