Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755438AbXFYVSQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:18:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752264AbXFYVSC (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:18:02 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]:18454 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752218AbXFYVSA (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:18:00 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IDO6Z6iiCJ9KPhtFMpHgMyOcZKv8fV0cIY8cDK7ecr/Ylatx26NAiuGql+8ja8I9JGd2V9vBcrqGMS+RPOajKrpVWhCxd7iiye96R9PcFUWfAHxw870i3++n4L5+byxcYs4LJOKatItkJdFGkYc+PWEErjlfPW2FcQVFMXh5ubo= Message-ID: <9a8748490706251417v10b3f24bwdf7ebd44093eaddf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:17:59 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Roman Zippel" Subject: Re: [patch, v2.6.22-rc6] sys_time() speedup Cc: "Ingo Molnar" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , "John Stultz" , "Thomas Gleixner" In-Reply-To: <200706252309.47467.zippel@linux-m68k.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070625200601.GA18980@elte.hu> <200706252309.47467.zippel@linux-m68k.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 22 On 25/06/07, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 25 June 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > the patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly: > > Has that any real practical relevance? > It seems to me that Ingo's patch offers slightly improved performance for any program using the time() system call, with no real drawbacks, so why wouldn't we want to use it? -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/