Re: gettimeofday call

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Sat Mar 26 2005 - 20:25:57 EST


On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:40:27AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> I suppose that calling gettimeofday() repeatedly (to add a timestamp
> to some data) within the kernel is cheaper than doing it in
> userspace, is it?

Calls to do_gettimeofday are used in various places for this already.
See sock_get_timestamp for example.
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