Re: [RFC] The New and Improved Logdev (now with kprobes!)

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 14:32:27 EST


On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 14:09 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

>
> My problem with using a timestamp, is that I ran logdev on too many archs.
> So I need to have a timestamp that I can get to that is always reliable.
> How does LTTng get the time for different archs? Does it have separate
> code for each arch?
>

I just got done updating a patchset that exposes the clocksources from
generic time to take low level time stamps.. But even without that you
can just call gettimeofday() directly to get a timestamp .

Daniel

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