The better way yo find the difference of jiffies.
do the following:
unsigned long time, time_in_sec;
time = jiffies;
data_transfer();
time = jiffies - time;
time_in_sec = time / HZ;
- Gaurav
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:35:40 -0800, Suneel Kandru
<suneel.kandru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I want to find the data transfer time
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> I have code like this
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> timeRetVal = gettimeofday(&tp,&tz);
> if(timeRetVal != -1)
> lStartTime = tp.tv_usec;
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> Transferdata();
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> timeRetVal = gettimeofday(&tp,&tz);
> if(timeRetVal != -1)
> {
> lEndTime = tp.tv_usec;
> }
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> lTime = lEndTime - lStartTime;
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> How come some times lEndTime value is less than lStartTime value is there
> any other function to get the tick count.
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> Thanks
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