Amazon EC2 上的 gettimeofday 與 clock_gettime 的效能

看到「 Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2 」這篇在講 gettimeofday 與 clock_gettime 的效能，另外搜資料時發現應該也是作者提問的「 gettimeofday() not using vDSO? 」這篇。

在 EC2 比較新的機器上用 tsc 應該是沒問題的 (在 2015 的時候官方就這樣建議了)：

it seems tsc support in Xen has improved with version 4.0 and with improved CPU support in Sandy Bridge+ platforms. Modern EC2 machines should be okay with tsc. Check Xen version using dmesg | grep "Xen version". Amazon recommended the tsc clocksource already in re:Invent 2015 (https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/cmp402-amazon-ec2-instances-deep-dive). I'm not yet running to production with this, but the situation doesn't seem as bad as implied by packagecloud.

開了一台 t2.micro 看 /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource 看起來目前是設成 xen ：

ubuntu@ip-172-31-22-165:~$ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
xen

在「 (CMP402) Amazon EC2 Instances Deep Dive 」這邊也可以看到一些資料 (page 24 與 page 25)：