Re: do_gettimeofday monotony?

[Christopher Friesen]

bert hubert wrote:
> Is do_gettimeofday supposed to be monotonous?

Nope.

> I'm seeing time go backward by tiny amounts, and then progressing.

Are you running NTP?  Corrections could cause this.

> Is there another monotonous clock in the kernel that doesn't wrap (all
> that often)? Doesn't really need to be wall time.

clock_gettime()

Chris
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