Wrap clock_gettime and friends
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:48:58PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 16.09.09 15:15, Daniel Mack (daniel@caiaq.de) wrote:
>
> > From: Kim Lester <kim@dfusion.com.au>
> >
> > OS X does not define clockid_t or clock_gettime() and friends.
> > Add a wrapper to fix this.
>
> Hmpf. I am not particularly happy with this. This adds a lot of
> unnecessary compat code. We don't actually need implementations of
> clock_getres(). All we need is some kind of check whether system
> timers are accurate or whether they are rounded up to scheduling
> slices. On Linux we do that check with clock_getres(), but all the
> information it returns is actually not intertesting at all. We just
> check if this is below some trheshold, that's all.
>
> clock_settime() we don't use at all! We shouldn't carry compat code
> for that.
>
> And clock_gettime we don't really need either. We need some kind of
> accurate system timers (preferably monotonic), and on Linux we use
> clock_gettime() for that. But we already have a fallback there for
> gettimeofday().
>
> Or in other words, the current APIs pa_rtclock_get(),
> pa_rtclock_hrtimer() is supposed to be the abstract API that has
> different backends on different systems. I'd very much prefer if any
> MacOS specific code would simply be plugged in there instead of
> creating various new abstraction interfaces!
Ok - what about the version below? I don't particularily like the
Daniel
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From: Kim Lester <kim@dfusion.com.au>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:40:01 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Implement pa_rtclock_get() and pa_rtclock_hrtimer() for Darwin
OS X does not define clockid_t or clock_gettime() and friends.
Add wrappers to fix this. Based on a patch from Kim Lester
<kim@dfusion.com.au>.