linux-kernel - Re: [patch, v2.6.22-rc6] sys

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Message-ID: <9a8748490706251417v10b3f24bwdf7ebd44093eaddf@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:17:59 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Roman Zippel" <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"John Stultz" <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch, v2.6.22-rc6] sys_time() speedup

On 25/06/07, Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org> 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?

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