Re: [RFC] [Patch 7/8] statistics infrastructure - exploitation prerequisite

[Peter Chubb]

Anrd> Am Wednesday 17 May 2006 00:36 schrieb Martin Peschke:
> Any other hints on how to replace my sched_clock() calls are welcome.
> (I want to measure elapsed times in units that are understandable to
> users without hardware manuals and calculator, such as milliseconds.)

Anrd> There are a number of APIs that allow you to get the time:

Anrd> - do_gettimeofday
Anrd>   potentially slow, reliable TOD clock, microsecond resolution

Slow, not necessarily safe to call in IRQ context.

Anrd> - ktime_get_ts
Anrd>   monotonic clock, nanosecond resolution

Actual resolution varies by platform, it may be as low as jiffy.

Anrd> - getnstimeofday
Anrd>   reliable, nanosecond TOD clock

(which is only currently implemented with ns resolution on IA64 and
Sparc64, AFAIK) 

Anrd> - xtime
Anrd>   jiffie accurate TOD clock, with fast reads

Too coarse a resolution.


Anrd> - get_cycles
Anrd>   highest supported resolution and accuracy, highly
Anrd>   HW-specific behaviour, may overflow.

Not very usable on SMP if you want to measure across migration; may be
variable rate.

-- 
Dr Peter Chubb  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au  peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au           ERTOS within National ICT Australia
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