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| From | One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available |
| Date | 2016-11-21 15:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sFXVf-2nj-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <sEvol-1nz-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <sEvol-1nz-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <sEEBj-7vt-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <sEI2d-1vi-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <sF0it-4V9-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Intel Corporation |
> > increase in timestamp resoultion of at least another 10e-3 is
> > likely....
>
> Is it, though? To be useful, surely you have to be able to jam quite a few
> instructions into a 1ns block, including memory accesses.
>
> Rather than providing:
>
> struct timestamp {
> __s64 seconds;
> __s64 femtoseconds;
> };
>
> which would require 64-bit divisions to get nanosecond timestamps that we do
> actually use, I would lean towards:
>
> struct timestamp {
> __s64 seconds;
> __s32 nanoseconds;
> __s32 femtoseconds;
> };
Which gets silly. The nanosecond world is defined by the speed of light.
Short of someone finding a way to change that digital computing as we
know it today is going to be living in the nanoseconds world. You hit the
point of 'can't measure the difference' before you hit the point of 'can
usefully order things using'
Alan
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[RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 15:00 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields) - 2016-11-17 21:10 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 03:50 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> - 2016-11-18 05:40 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-18 14:50 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 14:50 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
[PATCH 3/4] statx: NFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
[PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 04:40 +0100
[PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 09:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 09:50 +0100
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-17 19:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 00:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 04:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 11:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 23:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-19 00:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-19 23:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-22 11:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-22 15:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-22 22:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-21 15:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-21 21:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> - 2016-11-18 18:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 19:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 20:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 20:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 22:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 23:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 11:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 22:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 22:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 23:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-19 11:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 09:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 13:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 10:30 +0100
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