Introduce a new time API

The old time API is based on erlang:now/0. The major issue with
erlang:now/0 is that it was intended to be used for so many
unrelated things. This tied these unrelated operations together
and unnecessarily caused performance, scalability as well as
accuracy, and precision issues for operations that do not need
to have such issues. The new API spreads different functionality
over multiple functions in order to improve on this.

The new API consists of a number of new BIFs:
- erlang:convert_time_unit/3
- erlang:monotonic_time/0
- erlang:monotonic_time/1
- erlang:system_time/0
- erlang:system_time/1
- erlang:time_offset/0
- erlang:time_offset/1
- erlang:timestamp/0
- erlang:unique_integer/0
- erlang:unique_integer/1
- os:system_time/0
- os:system_time/1

and a number of extensions of existing BIFs:
- erlang:monitor(time_offset, clock_service)
- erlang:system_flag(time_offset, finalize)
- erlang:system_info(os_monotonic_time_source)
- erlang:system_info(time_offset)
- erlang:system_info(time_warp_mode)
- erlang:system_info(time_correction)
- erlang:system_info(start_time)

See the "Time and Time Correction in Erlang" chapter of the
ERTS User's Guide for more information.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_thr_progress.c b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_thr_progress.c
index 664c479eb6..f111846041 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_thr_progress.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_thr_progress.c
@@ -1342,18 +1342,16 @@ erts_thr_progress_fatal_error_block(SWord timeout,
     ErtsThrPrgrData *tpd = perhaps_thr_prgr_data(NULL);
     erts_aint32_t bc;
     SWord time_left = timeout;
-    SysTimeval to;
+    ErtsMonotonicTime timeout_time;
 
     /*
      * Counting poll intervals may give us a too long timeout
-     * if cpu is busy. If we got tolerant time of day we use it
-     * to prevent this.
+     * if cpu is busy. We use timeout time to try to prevent
+     * this. In case we havn't got time correction this may
+     * however fail too...
      */
-    if (!erts_disable_tolerant_timeofday) {
-	erts_get_timeval(&to);
-	to.tv_sec += timeout / 1000;
-	to.tv_sec += timeout % 1000;
-    }
+    timeout_time = erts_get_monotonic_time();
+    timeout_time += ERTS_MSEC_TO_MONOTONIC((ErtsMonotonicTime) timeout);
 
     if (!tpd) {
 	/*
@@ -1378,14 +1376,8 @@ erts_thr_progress_fatal_error_block(SWord timeout,
 	    break; /* Succefully blocked all managed threads */
 	if (time_left <= 0)
 	    break; /* Timeout */
-	if (!erts_disable_tolerant_timeofday) {
-	    SysTimeval now;
-	    erts_get_timeval(&now);
-	    if (now.tv_sec > to.tv_sec)
-		break; /* Timeout */
-	    if (now.tv_sec == to.tv_sec && now.tv_usec >= to.tv_usec)
-		break; /* Timeout */
-	}
+	if (timeout_time <= erts_get_monotonic_time())
+	    break; /* Timeout */
     }
 }