Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:14:19 -0400 | From | Gerald Britton <> | Subject | Re: Accessing monotonic clock from modules |
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:36:48AM +0200, Mikael Starvik wrote: > We would like to get the posix monotonic clock from a loadable module. > Would a patch to make do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime exported ok or > should we do it in some other way?
A possible use of a clean api would be in the packet rx timestamping code where one is interested in accurate inter-packet timing, but the only way of timestamping currently uses do_gettimeofday, so is fragile across time time changes.
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