Measuring time in range of microseconds.

Fredrick fjohnber at zoho.com
Tue Dec 6 21:42:18 EST 2011


I think if the specific ARM platform you are working supports a oneshot 
clock_device, you would get the high res timer support.

You can check for clock_devices defined in your platform having feature 
- CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT.

-Fredrick

On 12/06/2011 03:17 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> Hi Sathishkumar,
>
> rdtsc is x86 specific... Sorry.
>
> But there are other options.
>
> Compares rdtsc with hpet:
> http://aufather.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/high-performance-time-measuremen-in-linux/
>
> Other reference about timers:
> http://the-b.org/Linux_timers
>
> I'm not sure if HPET works on ARM.
>
> []'s
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Sathishkumar Duraisamy
> <bewithsathish at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Thanks for rdtsc. But I looking to measure time inside Linux Kernel
>> Module in ARM architecture.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sathishkumar D
>> http://flowersopenlab.weebly.com/
>
>
>





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