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Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 17:10:40 +0200
From: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin.de>
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Subject: MPC8xx: resolution of gettimeofday() ?
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Hi all,

what is the resolution of gettimeofday() for an MPC8xx?

IIUC then the "decrementer" is used to generate the timer interrupts every 10ms.

This decrementer runs at cpuclk/16. Thus with 80MHz CPU clock has a
resolution of 16/80MHz = 200ns and overflows every 50000 ticks.

But is this decrementer used to update xtime?
Will gettimeofday() have a resolution of 200ns?

How about linux 2.4 where xtime is a "struct timeval" rather then "struct
timespec"?

This trivial test programm

	struct timeval first, next;
	double diff;

	gettimeofday(&first, NULL);
	do {
		gettimeofday(&next, NULL);
	} while (first.tv_usec == next.tv_usec &&
		 first.tv_sec == next.tv_sec);

	diff  = ((double)  next.tv_sec - (double) first.tv_sec) * 1e6;
	diff +=  (double) (next.tv_usec - first.tv_usec);

	printf ("Resolution gettimeofday() = %g µs\n", diff);

says it's between 13 - 16 µs on a linux-2.4.20. Could that be? how does this
relate to the decrementer frequency?

Thanks a million!

--
Steven