Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2023-01-04 13:02:05 +0100, David Geier wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Change instr_time to just store nanoseconds, that's
>> cheaper.
> Does anybody see a reason to not move forward with this aspect? We do a fair
> amount of INSTR_TIME_ACCUM_DIFF() etc, and that gets a good bit cheaper by
> just using nanoseconds.
Cheaper, and perhaps more accurate too? Don't recall if we have any code
paths where the input timestamps are likely to be better-than-microsecond,
but surely that's coming someday.
I'm unsure that we want to deal with rdtsc's vagaries in general, but
no objection to changing instr_time.
regards, tom lane
