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Subject: [ts-7000] monotonic clock in 2.4 kernel
From: Robert Ulbrich <>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:19:48 -0600
Howdy all!

I'm wondering if anyone else has implemented the MONOTONIC_CLOCK clock 
source in the 2.4 kernel. I'm running the 2.4.21-ts kernel on a 7260 
board. It seems that this clock source is available (in the headers) but 
it doesn't work. The main reason for using the MONOTONIC clock is 
because it is not affected by changes in the time by things like NTP 
(I'm okay with the frequency changes that could be made by adjtimex).

All this is because I have a bit of code that schedules a recurring 
event. The code wakes up every so often (10ms) and checks if it is time 
to schedule an event by comparing the last time scheduled to the current 
time. I know that I could create a timer and receive a signal back from 
the OS, but this interface is also dependent on the clock source. Not to 
mention the signal handling in the pthreads implementation 
(linuxthreads) in 2.4 has known issues.

How would one go about implementing the MONOTONIC_CLOCK in 2.4? Anybody 
have another solution?

Thanks,
Robert


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