[PATCH] Use HP_TIMING for benchmarks if available

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com
Tue Apr 23 10:56:00 GMT 2013


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:41:12PM +0200, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> I thougth instead ask in separate thread if it would be possible. It
> would make hp_timing more usable.

OK, but the correct alternative for hp_timing would be
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW and not CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID.  For
benchmarking I would prefer the latter for a lot of cases since it
does not include scheduling costs.

> You are writing here minimum and maximum in seconds. 

Ahh ok, thanks.  I'll fix that once your patch is reviewed and goes in.

Siddhesh



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