From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Reg Clemens <reg@dwf.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does 2.6.26 provide nanosecond time to the user?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:46:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488011FF.6010201@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807180019.m6I0J2kG026240@deneb.dwf.com>
Reg Clemens wrote:
> Im confused.
> (sorry I havent been following the linux-kernel mailing list on this)
>
> Does 2.6.26 use nanosecond time
> (1) internally?
> (2) provide it to the user?
It's available to userspace via clock_gettime(), but whether it really
is accurate to sub-microseconds will depend on the specific version of
the kernel and hardware architecture being used.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-18 0:19 Does 2.6.26 provide nanosecond time to the user? Reg Clemens
2008-07-18 1:42 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-07-18 2:19 ` Reg Clemens
2008-08-01 14:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-18 3:46 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
[not found] <fa.cG/vRVVC+ZH1htzxsRnVF3NJVCc@ifi.uio.no>
2008-07-18 1:48 ` Robert Hancock
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