GLIBC IA64 HP_TIMING fixes for SMP systems with unsynchronized ITC

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Fri Jun 4 06:27:00 GMT 2004


David Mosberger wrote:

> Does anyone else find it annoying that gettimeofday() only provides
> micro-second resolution?  We can do syscalls significantly faster than
> that (especially with a light-weight syscall handler).  Time for a
> kernel extension?

What do you think clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) is for?

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