Red Hat

HI
I have a Red Hat Enterprise with Real Time kernel.

Are you aware if there are C functions for this kernel or some code/library for this OS for measuring time more lightweight than clock_gettime and gettimeofday? THe hardware I have is NUMA.

Reading forums I found gethrtime but it is available on Solaris only; this last spends few cycles compared to clock_gettime and gettimeofday eating the CPU.

Do you know if for Red Hat someomene did something similar?
My distro is the following

THanks a lot

Code:

     uname -a
     Linux lndbxdev01 2.6.24.7-108.el5rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT 
     Mon Mar 23 10:58:10 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

     cat/etc/redhat-release
     Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)

Hi
after few research I didn't find a better function than clock_getime or a specific function for RedHat distro BUT I can tell you that in the 2.6 kernel there are new ID available for clock_getime.
If you use version 2.6.28 you can use a new clock type, CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
If you use version 2.6.32 you can use a new clock type, CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTIC_COARSE.

Someone did some tests with it and they seem 5 times faster than the code used by CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME.

Best Regards
MNSTN