Re: [PATCH 3/6] perf record: add time-of-day option
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 01 2011 - 10:59:35 EST
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 08:41 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> realtime-clock counter is created with a period N. How do you correlate
> perf_clock to time-of-day until now + N?
You scan fwd? Since its at most N time ahead you're scanning fwd its
still constant time.
Thing is, I'm really not convinced this is a very useful ioctl() in
generic, and ioctl()s really need a good justification to add.
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