From: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin•de>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: MPC8xx: resolution of gettimeofday() ?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 10:08:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <446D7CFA.5060505@imc-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060518164812.GA21075@gate.ebshome.net>
Eugene,
>> what is the resolution of gettimeofday() for an MPC8xx?
>>
>> IIUC then the "decrementer" is used to generate the timer interrupts every 10ms.
>>
>> This decrementer runs at cpuclk/16. Thus with 80MHz CPU clock has a
>> resolution of 16/80MHz = 200ns and overflows every 50000 ticks.
>>
>> But is this decrementer used to update xtime?
>> Will gettimeofday() have a resolution of 200ns?
>>
>> How about linux 2.4 where xtime is a "struct timeval" rather then "struct
>> timespec"?
>>
>
> Usually on PPC we use timebase to interpolate time between Decrementer
> interrupts. In this case gettimeofday resolution is determined by
> timebase resolution which is quite high (megahertz range).
Sorry. I don't understand. What do you mean with "timebase"? Is there a
second timer/counter?
--
Steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-19 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-18 15:10 MPC8xx: resolution of gettimeofday() ? Steven Scholz
2006-05-18 16:48 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-05-19 8:08 ` Steven Scholz [this message]
2006-05-19 17:55 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-05-22 11:03 ` Steven Scholz
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