Re: Minimum timing resolution in Ubuntu/Linaro on the PandaBoard ES

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On 02/07/2012 02:43 PM, Andrew Richardson wrote:

I'm experiencing what appears to be a minimum clock resolution issue
in using clock_gettime() on a PandaBoard ES running ubuntu.

Do you have CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER enabled in your kernel?
Look at 'dmesg | grep clock' and check for the following:

...
OMAP clockevent source: GPTIMER1 at 32768 Hz
sched_clock: 32 bits at 32kHz, resolution 30517ns, wraps every 131071999ms
...

Most probably this is the answer - by default, recent OMAPs are configured
to use less-accurate, but more energy-saving timer (32KHz) in favor of
MPU timer.

Disable CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER to switch to MPU timer, and check
'dmesg | grep clock' to see:

...
OMAP clockevent source: GPTIMER1 at 38400000 Hz
OMAP clocksource: GPTIMER2 at 38400000 Hz
sched_clock: 32 bits at 38MHz, resolution 26ns, wraps every 111848ms
...

BTW, I have no ideas why clock_getres(CLOCK_REALTIME,...) returns {0, 1}
regardless of underlying clock source. I expect {0, 30517} for 32K timer
and {0, 26} for MPU timer.

Dmitry
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