On 3/29/2012 8:31 AM, Deng Zhenrong wrote: > According to the description below: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/17/258 > > There are two benefits: > a) it doesn't need to access the hardware. > b) avoid the syscall by using vdso clock_gettime(). > > The cons is the CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE returns the time at the last > tick. > Is this something desirable for PulseAudio? This could impact the timer-based scheduling, I'd rather keep the precision here. -Pierre