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2015-03-26Misc fixesRickard Green
2015-03-24Fix zero timout timersRickard Green
2015-03-20Multiple timer wheelsRickard Green
2015-03-20Introduce a new time APIRickard Green
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.
2013-01-25Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-07-05erts: Fixate timer wheel resultion at compile time if possibleSverker Eriksson
2011-12-02Fix time typesRickard Green
2011-11-13Optimize memory allocationRickard Green
A number of memory allocation optimizations have been implemented. Most optimizations reduce contention caused by synchronization between threads during allocation and deallocation of memory. Most notably: * Synchronization of memory management in scheduler specific allocator instances has been rewritten to use lock-free synchronization. * Synchronization of memory management in scheduler specific pre-allocators has been rewritten to use lock-free synchronization. * The 'mseg_alloc' memory segment allocator now use scheduler specific instances instead of one instance. Apart from reducing contention this also ensures that memory allocators always create memory segments on the local NUMA node on a NUMA system.
2011-06-14Use new atomic API in runtime systemRickard Green
All uses of the old deprecated atomic API in the runtime system have been replaced with the use of the new atomic API. In a lot of places this change imply a relaxation of memory barriers used.
2011-03-11Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2010-12-29Teach timer-wheel slots to use double linked listsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_time.h
2010-12-20Remove timer-thread implementationBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2010-12-20Refactor timer interfaceBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2010-12-20Teach timer-wheel to keep min timeBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Increases the speed of the timer-wheel
2010-12-15Use new atomic types in emulatorRickard Green
2010-09-10Use mutex instead of rwlockRickard Green
Use mutex instead of rwlock since the read lock is more or less unused and it can be quite contended.
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP
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