<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 29 Jan 2013, at 17:45, Manik Surtani wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On 29 Jan 2013, at 17:17, Bela Ban <<a href="mailto:bban@redhat.com">bban@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 1/29/13 5:25 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Glad you started work on that :)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Any currentTimeMillis() even today will blow away your cache line and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">probably trigger a context switch.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I understand the context switch (in general, it's not recommended anyway <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to invoke a system call in synchronized code), but I fail to see why <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this would blow the cache line. Are you referring to the cached Date <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">value here ?<br></blockquote><br>No, if you have a separate maint thread that updates a reusable currentTimeMillis value.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess Bela's question was about why System. currentTimeMillis() would trigger a context switch, I'm also curious about that one :-) </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Do you use nanoTime() a lot then? Because that too is inefficient (as per the Oracle blog) ...<br><br>--<br>Manik Surtani<br><a href="mailto:manik@jboss.org">manik@jboss.org</a><br>twitter.com/maniksurtani<br><br>Platform Architect, JBoss Data Grid<br>http://red.ht/data-grid<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>infinispan-dev mailing list<br>infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org<br>https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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