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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-47799

Timer performance issues with glib event dispatcher

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • Not Evaluated
    • 5.2.0
    • 4.8.4, 4.8.5, 4.8.6, 4.8.7
    • Core: Event loop
    • None
    • Tested on Archlinux, Fedora 21-22, RHEL 5-6 + custom Qt builds
      Core i7 4.3 GHz
    • bf5f2a9e3e3bf70c373b65bf95a332f4e1c514f9

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      Using the glib event dispatcher, a simple application that only starts a timer with a timeout of 10 msec, takes about 10% of a cpu (core i7 4.3 GHz). See the project in the attachment.
      The results were the same for versions 4.8.4 to 4.8.7. I haven't tested with older versions.
      Using the unix event dispatcher (by setting "QT_NO_GLIB" environment variable), the cpu usage is almost negligible.
      This performance issue does not exist on Qt 5.

      Going through the source code, it would seem that there is a timeout rounding issue in the "timerSourcePrepareHelper" method in "qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp".
      Indeed in Qt 5 the timeout is calculated as follows:

          timeout = (tv.tv_sec * 1000) + ((tv.tv_nsec + 999999) / 1000 / 1000);
      

      while in Qt4 :

          timeout = (tv.tv_sec * 1000) + (tv.tv_usec / 1000);
      

      With a similar rounding on microseconds, the performance issue disappears.
      I attach a patch of the correction.

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            thiago Thiago Macieira
            tbrez Thibault BREZILLON
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