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, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/sys/common/erl_poll.h b/erts/emulator/sys/common/erl_poll.h
index 2f1c05f401..d02ed2396b 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/sys/common/erl_poll.h
+++ b/erts/emulator/sys/common/erl_poll.h
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
 
 #include "sys.h"
 
+#define ERTS_POLL_NO_TIMEOUT ERTS_MONOTONIC_TIME_MIN
+
 #if 0
 #define ERTS_POLL_COUNT_AVOIDED_WAKEUPS
 #endif
@@ -241,7 +243,7 @@ void		ERTS_POLL_EXPORT(erts_poll_interrupt)(ErtsPollSet,
 						      int);
 void		ERTS_POLL_EXPORT(erts_poll_interrupt_timed)(ErtsPollSet,
 							    int,
-							    erts_short_time_t);
+							    ErtsMonotonicTime);
 ErtsPollEvents	ERTS_POLL_EXPORT(erts_poll_control)(ErtsPollSet,
 						    ErtsSysFdType,
 						    ErtsPollEvents,
@@ -254,7 +256,7 @@ void		ERTS_POLL_EXPORT(erts_poll_controlv)(ErtsPollSet,
 int		ERTS_POLL_EXPORT(erts_poll_wait)(ErtsPollSet,
 						 ErtsPollResFd [],
 						 int *,
-						 SysTimeval *);
+						 ErtsMonotonicTime);
 int		ERTS_POLL_EXPORT(erts_poll_max_fds)(void);
 void		ERTS_POLL_EXPORT(erts_poll_info)(ErtsPollSet,
 						 ErtsPollInfo *);