gettimeofday cost on intel?
gettimeofday cost on intel?
- Subject: gettimeofday cost on intel?
- From: Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:11:21 -0400 (EDT)
I need a cheap way to measure events with at least a 10ms granularity
that is monotonically increasing, regardless of the CPU my thread has
been scheduled upon. Can I count on gettimeofday() using the commpage
(and, hence, being very cheap) on x86 like it is on ppc?
On some OSes, gettimeofday() will always, or often result in
an expensive syscall, so we mmap a counter out of our driver
which is incremented every clock tick. If MacOSX's gettimeofday()
can be counted upon to be cheap, I can avoid this effort on MacOSX.
Thanks,
Drew
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