At 09:46 PM 1/24/2009, Chris Green wrote: > >The first thing I can think of that you could do is rewrite the time >function to cache time and only update it every so often.. I have a >proof of concept here. It reduces >syscall time by 40% for HZ=1000 for gettimeofday/clock_gettime. > > >The left4dead server replaces the gettimeofday calls with use of the >hardware cycle counter (on systems which support it stably) reducing >the amount of time spent making syscalls for time to approximately >zero. Also, thread locals went from pthread functions to compiler >thread local support, lock-free thread operations went to gcc >intrinsics, etc. So the linux DS bins spend a lot less time in the >kernel and c library functions than previous linux server releases. > >We're using gcc 4.3.0 for l4d.
Why don't you just open /dev/hpet and translate it into a tick counter? TSC's don't sync up correctly on AMD systems :( Anyways, I was talking about 1.6/Source.. not L4D. A majority of server providers (like me) wish VALVe would re-release the 64bit binaries. But they said "when its ready", but it seems that is going to take _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
