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Commits on Oct 29, 2013

  1. linux: use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE if available 

    On some systems, clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) is only serviced from
the vDSO when the __vdso_clock_gettime() wrapper is confident enough
that the vDSO timestamp is highly accurate.  When in doubt, it falls
back to making a traditional SYS_clock_gettime system call with all
the overhead that entails.

While a commendable approach, it's overkill for our purposes because we
don't usually need high precision time. That's why this commit switches
to CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE for low-precision timekeeping, provided said
clock has at least a one millisecond resolution.

This change should eliminate the system call on almost all systems,
including virtualized ones, provided the kernel is >= 2.6.32 and glibc
is new enough to find and parse the vDSO.
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    bnoordhuis committed Oct 29, 2013
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