Re: Clock monotonic a suggestion

From: Joel Becker (Joel.Becker@oracle.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 14:46:17 EST


On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:18:55AM -0800, george anzinger wrote:
> I don't really understand how :(
>
> I want a tick on CLOCK_MONOTONIC to be the same size as a tick on
> gettimeofday() over the life of the system. I.e. lock step. The only

        Ok, I think we're having a terminology problem here. I wasn't
aware that "CLOCK_MONOTONIC" was a POSIX thing, I merely thought you
were speaking of a kconf define for the proposed monotonic_clock()
interface. That interface is a portable and consistent wrapper around
access to things like the TSC and the cyclone timer. Maybe it needs
renaming.

Joel

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