Merge pull request #1650 from gevent/issue1648

Set EV_USE_REALTIME, EV_USE_MONOTONIC and EV_USE_FLOOR.

_setuplibev.py

@@ -88,7 +88,17 @@ def build_extension():
             # libev watchers that we don't use currently:
             ('EV_CLEANUP_ENABLE', '0'),
             ('EV_EMBED_ENABLE', '0'),
-            ("EV_PERIODIC_ENABLE", '0')
+            ("EV_PERIODIC_ENABLE", '0'),
+            # Time keeping. If possible, use the realtime and/or monotonic
+            # clocks. On Linux, this can reduce the number of observable syscalls.
+            # On older linux, such as the version in manylinux2010, this requires
+            # linking to lib rt. We handle this in make-manylinux. Newer versions
+            # generally don't need that.
+            ("EV_USE_REALTIME", "1"),
+            ("EV_USE_MONOTONIC", "1"),
+            # use the builtin floor() function. Every modern platform should
+            # have this, right?
+            ("EV_USE_FLOOR", "1"),
         ]
         CORE.configure = configure_libev
         if os.environ.get('GEVENTSETUP_EV_VERIFY') is not None:

docs/changes/issue1648.feature

+The embedded libev is now asked to detect the availability of
+``clock_gettime`` and use the realtime and/or monotonic clocks, if
+they are available.
+
+On Linux, this can reduce the number of system calls libev makes.
+Originally provided by Josh Snyder.

scripts/releases/make-manylinux

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ export CCACHE_DIR="/ccache"
 # Disable some warnings produced by libev especially and also some Cython generated code.
 # Note that changing the value of these variables invalidates configure caches
 export CFLAGS="-Ofast -pipe -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-comment -Wno-unused-value -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-parentheses -Wno-unused-function -Wno-tautological-compare -Wno-strict-prototypes"
-
+export LDFLAGS="-lrt" # Needed for clock_gettime libc support on this version.
 
 if [ -d /gevent -a -d /opt/python ]; then
     # Running inside docker