On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:44:05PM -0700, Alex Leone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Marc - do you have any thoughts on linux timerfd's [1]?
I had lots of thoughts about timerfd, but I couldn't come up with a any
use for them.
The nice thing about them is that they support relative and absolute
timers for both realtime and monotonic clocks, so maybe one could get
better/faster/more certain time jump detection etc., but so far, I can't
see how this could be done without a lot of extra effort, either.
> think go into a red-black tree. My gut feeling is that doing the timing in
> userspace is probably a tad faster.
That's my guess, too - you'd have several extra syscalls per iteration,
while on many architectures you don't even need a single syscall when
doing it in userspace (assuming clock_gettime runs in userspace).
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