Re: [Lse-tech] [RFC][Patch 1/5] nanosecond timestamps and diffs

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> 
> 
>>+void getnstimestamp(struct timespec *ts)
> 
> 
> There is already getnstimeofday in the kernel.
> 
> 

Yes, and that function is being used within the getnstimestamp() being proposed.
However, John Stultz had advised that getnstimeofday could get affected by calls to
settimeofday and had recommended adjusting the getnstimeofday value with wall_to_monotonic.

John, could you elaborate ?

Thanks,
Shailabh
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