Subject: Re: gettimeofday scalability

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:35:12 -0700

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:36:06 +0100
[email-masked] 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.