On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 08:57:06PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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Here too, ktime_get() is daft.

What's the problem? ktime_xxx() itself or just the clock monotonic variant?

On 99.9999% of the platforms ktime_get_mono_fast/raw_fast is not any slower
than sched_clock(). The only case where sched_clock is faster is if your TSC
is buggered and the box switches to HPET for timekeeping.

The HPET thing, I just don't want to have to explain why this is so much
more expensive on some random weird machine, esp. since it really
doesn't matter.

Fair enough.