>Of course, there are plenty of other ways. If anyone can recommend >another one, I look forward to read... Thanks for the help. Now I use do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *) and I write a little function which calculates the different of two values. Regards Jörg > > -----Original Message----- > From: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org > [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Eggink > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:27 PM > To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org > Subject: time measurements > > > Hello all > > How can i make time measurements smaller than 1 milliseconds in a kernel > > module. > > I try it with the jiffies value but I get always the same output value > because the time is to short. > But I'm not sure what jiffies is. Is it time in seconds, milliseconds or > time > ticks or something else ? > > Thanks for your help in advance > > Regards > > Jörg > -------------------------------------------------------- Joerg Eggink Network Laboratories Heidelberg NEC Europe Ltd. Adenauerplatz 6 D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany email: joerg.eggink@ccrle.nec.de http://www.ccrle.nec.de -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/