Re: towards a user-mode diagnostic log mechanism

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On 1/10/12 5:04 PM, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 16:40, Noah Watkins<jayhawk@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Older Linux kernels force a thread into the kernel when calling gettimeofday
adding enormous overhead relative to the newer vsyscall implementations that
evaluate gettimeofday within userspace.

So turning debug to full blast on older kernels will be painful. I'm
personally ok with that, especially when the alternative is
implementing all of the TSC logic myself. This is really complex code,
and somebody went through the effort of solving the hard problems for

Yeh, that was just a bit of fyi noise.

us -- let's use their code!

I definitely agree :)
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