Re: get kernel time && data type

[Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:01:57AM -0400, alejandro alliana wrote:
>   It seems to me jiffies isn't as accurate as i need.
>   I followed your advice and tried:
>    long t1;
>    rdtscl(ts);
>   but 4 bytes isn't enogh time (i get the same number aprox every  12 sec.), 
> I'd much rather use 8 bytes using an unsigned long long )

rdtscll() ?

(IOW: use the source, Luke! ;)


Erik

-- 
J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department
of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems,
Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031,  2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-15-2783635  Fax: +31-15-2781843  Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl
WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
-
Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel.
Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/
IRC Channel:   irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies
Web Page:      http://www.surriel.com/kernelnewbies.shtml