On Wednesday 16 November 2005 02:48, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
>
> Are there problems with using sched_clock()for timestamping if one is prepared
> to live with them not necessarily being nanosecond accurate ? I'm trying to search
> the archives etc. but if you can respond with any quick comments, that'd be very
> helpful.
First it can be relatively slow on P4s (hundreds of cycles)
On other systems it can run with different frequencies on different CPUs,
so you never need to assume a timestamp from one CPU is comparable with
the one from other CPUs (the scheduler carefully avoids this)
If you need a stable timestamp over multiple CPUs don't use it.
In general do_gettimeofday is much safer.
do_gettimeofday shouldn't be that much slower for the case where TSC
works, and where it doesn't there is no other alternative.
-Andi
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