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Re: gettimeofday scalability

To: P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: gettimeofday scalability
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:35:12 -0700
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, mingo@xxxxxxx, andrea@xxxxxxx
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:36:06 +0100
P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> So can anyone summarise the relative merits of these locking
> mechanisms, before I start benchmarking?

Seq locks plus the timer interpolator layer found in 2.6.x kernels
is the most scalable gettimeofday() implementation currently.

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