Optimizations.

Pawel Jakub Dawidek nick at garage.freebsd.pl
Fri May 16 00:03:44 PDT 2003


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:14:43PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
+> What about "gettimeofday()"?  There are a number of applications,
+> particularly HTTP protocol applications, with strict timestamp
+> logging requirements, mandated by standards.  The tend to call
+> gettimeofday() up to six times per transaction.  Examples will
+> include HTTP proxies, L7 load balancers, and proxy caches.  Any
+> box competing in the Cisco CSS/F5 falls into this category.

That's right:)
Look at functions in /sys/kern/kern_tc.c. There are so many little
functions. How about put __inline here and there?

And second thing. Does anybody think about representing time in BCD code?

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