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, 3 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c b/erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c
index 0d677d5f34..70f549a37a 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ struct {
     int (*event)(ErlDrvPort, ErlDrvEvent, ErlDrvEventData);
     void (*check_io_as_interrupt)(void);
     void (*check_io_interrupt)(int);
-    void (*check_io_interrupt_tmd)(int, erts_short_time_t);
+    void (*check_io_interrupt_tmd)(int, ErtsMonotonicTime);
     void (*check_io)(int);
     Uint (*size)(void);
     Eterm (*info)(void *);
@@ -386,9 +386,9 @@ erts_sys_schedule_interrupt(int set)
 
 #ifdef ERTS_SMP
 void
-erts_sys_schedule_interrupt_timed(int set, erts_short_time_t msec)
+erts_sys_schedule_interrupt_timed(int set, ErtsMonotonicTime timeout_time)
 {
-    ERTS_CHK_IO_INTR_TMD(set, msec);
+    ERTS_CHK_IO_INTR_TMD(set, timeout_time);
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -984,24 +984,6 @@ static void unblock_signals(void)
 #endif /* #ifndef ETHR_UNUSABLE_SIGUSRX */
 #endif
 }
-/************************** Time stuff **************************/
-#ifdef HAVE_GETHRTIME
-#ifdef GETHRTIME_WITH_CLOCK_GETTIME
-
-SysHrTime sys_gethrtime(void)
-{
-    struct timespec ts;
-    long long result;
-    if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC,&ts) != 0) {
-	erl_exit(1,"Fatal, could not get clock_monotonic value!, "
-		 "errno = %d\n", errno);
-    }
-    result = ((long long) ts.tv_sec) * 1000000000LL + 
-	((long long) ts.tv_nsec);
-    return (SysHrTime) result;
-}
-#endif
-#endif
 
 /************************** OS info *******************************/