How to measure performance inside Kernel?

[michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com]

Hi!

On 19:47 Fri 10 Feb     , Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
...
> #include <linux/time.h>
> 
> getnstimeofday (ts_start); /*stopwatch start*/
...
> getnstimeofday (ts_end); /*stopwatch stop*/
> 
> diff = timespec_sub(end, begin);
> 
> printk ("%lu,", diff.tv_nsec );
> 
> Am I doing anything wrong? Can mysterious stuff like out of order
> execution engine, brake the stopwatch?

Why don't you print the tv_sec part?

You might also want to replace getnstimeofday with getrawmonotonic or any
other monotonic time source. If ntp or something else decides to change system
time during the measurement, you would probably get weird results.

	-Michi
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