On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Regarding the watchdog: what it basically wants is a POSIX
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC clock. This isn't currently implemented by Linux,
> but I expect it will be eventually because it's really useful for a lot
> of applications who just need an increasing time stamp in user space,
> and who do not want to fight ntpd for this. One example for such
> an application is the X server who needs this for its internal
> event sequencing.
>
> Implementing it based on the current time infrastructure is very easy -
> you just do not add xtime and wall jiffies in, but only jiffies.
>
> I don't think doing any special hacks and complicating get_cycles()
> for it is the right way. Just implement a new monotonic clock primitive
> (and eventually export it to user space too)
That seems to be the right way to go, rather than slow get_cycles() have a
separate functionality which does what you need. Didn't know about
CLOCK_MONOTONIC by that name, but I agree it's useful in various places.
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