Hi Michael The other day, I was curious how the vdso was implemented on ppc, and I noted that neither ppc32 or ppc64 handle the _COARSE versions of CLOCK_{REALTIME,MONOTONIC} in the vdso, so they fall back to an actual syscall. And sure enough, measuring CLOCK_MONOTONIC vs. CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE shows that the latter has three times as much overhead as the former. Whether it's worth adding a note to the man page is up to you. Best, Rasmus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html