gettimeofday_ns accuracy

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Sat Aug 7 21:53:00 GMT 2010


"Rob Donovan" <rob@proivrc.com> writes:

> Is there any other kind of time measure other than gettimeofday_ns()?

There is also get_cycles() after the epolymous kernel function.

> Since gettimeofday_ns is not that accurate, and has the possibility
> (and does) sometimes go backwards in time.

Can you describe your system (CPU models, kernel versions) a little
more?  We may be able to use/expose other time sources too, or help
you write the bit of code that would do so.

- FChE



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