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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:46:17 -0800
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: Clock monotonic  a suggestion
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:18:55AM -0800, george anzinger wrote:
> I don't really understand how :(
> 
> I want a tick on CLOCK_MONOTONIC to be the same size as a tick on 
> gettimeofday() over the life of the system.  I.e. lock step.  The only 

	Ok, I think we're having a terminology problem here.  I wasn't
aware that "CLOCK_MONOTONIC" was a POSIX thing, I merely thought you
were speaking of a kconf define for the proposed monotonic_clock()
interface.  That interface is a portable and consistent wrapper around
access to things like the TSC and the cyclone timer.  Maybe it needs
renaming.

Joel

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