Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 02:36:50PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> We really want to be switching most things in the kernel to timespec from
> timeval not the other way around?

A case came up where the transition latencies are very high, and I'd like
to still use uint64_t. The precision is hardly important here (something
like 10 * usec is fine).

> This is backwards as things tend to become faster instead of slower.

In this case (the sampling itself) things might even become slower (i.e.
more CPUs), mainly due NetBSD (xcall), but still.

- Jukka.