[ltt-dev] gettimeofday vs clock_gettime

Mathieu Desnoyers compudj at krystal.dyndns.org
Fri May 21 08:19:45 EDT 2010


* Nils Carlson (nils.carlson at ludd.ltu.se) wrote:
> Is there any reason UST uses gettimeofday and not clock_gettime with the
> monotonic clock?

Given that clock_gettime is available as a vDSO too, I see no reason not
to use it instead of gettimeofday. It's clearly closer to the intent.

Eventually, we'd like to create a TRACE_CLOCK version of clock_gettime
that would return the same time base as LTTng.

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> I'm guessing this has been asked before, but the mailing list doesn't
> really lend itself to searching and there is no FAQ as far as I can tell.
> 
> /Nils
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