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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 06:58:20 +0000
Subject: Re: GLIBC IA64 HP_TIMING fixes for SMP systems with unsynchronized
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>>>>> On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:12:49 -0700, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> said:

  Uli> 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?

  Uli> What do you think clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) is for?

clock_gettime() is fine.  I think last time I played with it it was
still implemented in user-level.  Probably just a matter of an "old"
libc...

	--david