From 148d6771bf5e00aa1d7fa2221507a3dfe4c1e37f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karsten Blees Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:05:42 +0200 Subject: trace: add high resolution timer function to debug performance issues Add a getnanotime() function that returns nanoseconds since 01/01/1970 as unsigned 64-bit integer (i.e. overflows in july 2554). This is easier to work with than e.g. struct timeval or struct timespec. Basing the timer on the epoch allows using the results with other time-related APIs. To simplify adaption to different platforms, split the implementation into a common getnanotime() and a platform-specific highres_nanos() function. The common getnanotime() function handles errors, falling back to gettimeofday() if highres_nanos() isn't implemented or doesn't work. getnanotime() is also responsible for normalizing to the epoch. The offset to the system clock is calculated only once on initialization, i.e. manually setting the system clock has no impact on the timer (except if the fallback gettimeofday() is in use). Git processes are typically short lived, so we don't need to handle clock drift. The highres_nanos() function returns monotonically increasing nanoseconds relative to some arbitrary point in time (e.g. system boot), or 0 on failure. Providing platform-specific implementations should be relatively easy, e.g. adapting to clock_gettime() as defined by the POSIX realtime extensions is seven lines of code. This version includes highres_nanos() implementations for: * Linux: using clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) * Windows: using QueryPerformanceCounter() Todo: * enable clock_gettime() on more platforms * add Mac OSX version, e.g. using mach_absolute_time + mach_timebase_info Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'config.mak.uname') diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index 1ae675b053..dad2618329 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux) HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL = YesPlease HAVE_DEV_TTY = YesPlease + HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME = YesPlease endif ifeq ($(uname_S),GNU/kFreeBSD) HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease -- cgit v1.2.3