Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> 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?

	Ingo
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