From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CLOCK_REALTIME_RES and nanosecond resolution
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:34:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131442459.18108.75.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1131418511.4652.88.camel@gaston>
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:55 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I noticed that we set
>
> #define CLOCK_REALTIME_RES TICK_NSEC /* In nano seconds. */
>
> Unconditionally in kernel/posix-timer.c
>
> Doesn't that mean that we'll advertise to userland (via clock_getres) a
> resolution that is basically HZ ? We do get at lenght to get more
> precise (up to ns) resolution in practice on many architectures but we
> don't expose that to userland at all. Is this normal ?
This is the resolution which you can expect for timers (nanosleep and
interval timers) as the timers depend on the jiffy tick.
The resolution of the readout functions is not affected by this.
http://www.tglx.de/ktimers.html#writeup
should give you more information about that.
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 2:55 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-08 4:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-08 9:34 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2005-11-08 9:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-08 12:56 ` Roman Zippel
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