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Cc: Pertti Kosunen <pertti.kosunen@pp.nic.fi>,
	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org,
	"Yuriy N. Shkandybin" <jura@networks.ru>
Subject: Re: Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1
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David Xu wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
>> In message <4361F057.4030904@pp.nic.fi>, Pertti Kosunen writes:
>>
>>
>>> Does polling affect to this test?
>>
>>
>>
>> Not apart from the CPU overhead.
>>
>>     sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware
>>
>> is much more important.
>>
>> and all the reports here which fail to include it are mostly
>> useless.
>>
>>
> I suspect because our time() function in libc uses gettimeofday,
> this further causes lots of gettimeofday syscall.
> 
> 
Now, I can confirm mysqld calls time() function lots of time, I have
changed time() to call clock_gettime, now there is few of gettimeofday 
in ktrace result, but fully filled by clock_gettime.
Can we optimize time()? because it only returns second.
may we just create a syscall to return time_second variable in kernel, 
this sounds crazy though.