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Re: GLIBC IA64 HP_TIMING fixes for SMP systems with unsynchronizedITC

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> David Mosberger wrote:
>
> > Does anyone else find it annoying that gettimeofday() only provides
> > micro-second resolution?  We can do syscalls significantly faster than
> > that (especially with a light-weight syscall handler).  Time for a
> > kernel extension?
>
> What do you think clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) is for?

clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) calls gettimeofday internally and then
multiplies with 1000. I have a patch that supports CLOCK_REALTIME_HR and
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR to access the full resolution of the clocks.
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