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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ftrace: Provide trace clock monotonic raw
On Tue, 5 May 2015 07:54:46 -0700
Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@arm.com> wrote:

> CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW will advance more constantly than CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
>
> Imagine someone is trying to optimize a particular program to reduce
> instructions executed for a given workload while minimizing the effect
> on runtime. Also suppose that ntp is running and potentially making
> larger adjustments to CLOCK_MONOTONIC. If ntp is adjusting
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC to advance more rapidly, the program will appear to
> use fewer instructions per second but run longer than it would if
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW had been used. The total number of instructions
> observed would be the same regardless of the clock source used, but
> how it's attributed to time would be affected.
>
> Conversely if ntp is adjusting CLOCK_MONOTONIC to advance more slowly,
> the program will appear to use more instructions per second but run
> more quickly. Of course there are many sources that can cause jitter
> in performance measurements on modern processors, but I'd like to
> remove ntp from the list.

This is a nice description, and was expecting to see it in the change
log of the latest patch. Can you resend with a more detailed
description (like the above).

Thanks!

-- Steve


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