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Re: Getting and setting time for client, how?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Jul 18 16:48:43 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:09:06 +0100 (BST)
Cc: drew@poohsticks.org, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, GeisJ@rnd3.indy.tce.com
In-Reply-To: <199507131251.FAA00666@Pescadero.Stanford.EDU> from "Jonathan Stone" at Jul 13, 95 05:51:40 am
> Is anyone working on high-resolution time for Linux -- e.g., with
> microsecond, tens-of-nanosecond resolution or better? It's a great
You've got about 800ns timer quality.
> way to tune networking (and other) code, widely available in Unix
See SIOCGSTAMP 8).
> workstation hardware; but I don't know of any widely-available
> high-resolution free-running clock hardware for x86s. As far
> as I know, motherboards don't include them, as a rule.
Microsecond accurate external timers exist, better I haven't really looked
hard for.
Alan
