Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:39:56 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: dleimbac@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gettimeofday Again... Message-ID: <30515.989915996@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 22:39:32 CDT." <200105150337.UAA19677@gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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In message <200105150337.UAA19677@gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net>, dave writes:
>
>
>Well I have been on the IRC in and out of mail list archives and cannot get
>a good answer to this question...
>
>Why does gettimeofday perform so poorly on FreeBSD vs the same hardware on
>Linux 2.4.2?
>
>---SNIP-----
>#include <sys/time.h>
>#include <unistd.h>
>
>int main() {
> struct timeval tv1, tv2, tv3;
>
> gettimeofday(&tv1, 0);
> gettimeofday(&tv2, 0);
> gettimeofday(&tv3, 0);
>
> printf("Time 1 %d:%d\n", tv1.tv_sec, tv1.tv_usec);
> printf("Time 2 %d:%d\n", tv3.tv_sec, tv3.tv_usec);
>
>}
>----SNIP-----
>
>I get anywhere from 14usec to 17usec just for the call to gettimeofday.
>
>On the 2.4.2 linux kernel its something like 3usec.
>
>I just want to know why we are so much slower.
Because we havn't particularly optimised it. If we want to, we
can get to the point where a machine with a usable TSC doesn't
even have to enter the kernel.
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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