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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 16:58:41 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 16:58:41 +0000
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Adding upstream version 9.4.upstream/9.4upstream
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+/* Get the system clock resolution.
+
+ Copyright 2021-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* Written by Paul Eggert. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "timespec.h"
+
+static long int _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST
+gcd (long int a, long int b)
+{
+ while (b != 0)
+ {
+ long int r = a % b;
+ a = b;
+ b = r;
+ }
+ return a;
+}
+
+/* Return the system time resolution in nanoseconds. */
+
+long int
+gettime_res (void)
+{
+ struct timespec res;
+#if defined CLOCK_REALTIME && HAVE_CLOCK_GETRES
+ clock_getres (CLOCK_REALTIME, &res);
+#elif defined HAVE_TIMESPEC_GETRES
+ timespec_getres (&res, TIME_UTC);
+#else
+ /* Guess high and let the later code deduce better. */
+ res.tv_sec = 1;
+ res.tv_nsec = 0;
+#endif
+
+ /* On all Gnulib platforms the following calculations do not overflow. */
+
+ long int hz = TIMESPEC_HZ;
+ long int r = res.tv_nsec <= 0 ? hz : res.tv_nsec;
+ struct timespec earlier = { .tv_nsec = -1 };
+
+ /* On some platforms, clock_getres (CLOCK_REALTIME, ...) yields a
+ too-large resolution, under the mistaken theory that it should
+ return the timer interval. For example, on AIX 7.2 POWER8
+ clock_getres yields 10 ms even though clock_gettime yields 1 μs
+ resolution. Work around the problem with high probability by
+ trying clock_gettime several times and observing the resulting
+ bounds on resolution. */
+ int nsamples = 32;
+ for (int i = 0; 1 < r && i < nsamples; i++)
+ {
+ /* If successive timestamps disagree the clock resolution must
+ be small, so exit the inner loop to check this sample.
+ Otherwise, arrange for the outer loop to exit but continue
+ the inner-loop search for a differing timestamp sample. */
+ struct timespec now;
+ for (;; i = nsamples)
+ {
+ now = current_timespec ();
+ if (earlier.tv_nsec != now.tv_nsec || earlier.tv_sec != now.tv_sec)
+ break;
+ }
+ earlier = now;
+
+ if (0 < now.tv_nsec)
+ r = gcd (r, now.tv_nsec);
+ }
+
+ return r;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Hey Emacs!
+ * Local Variables:
+ * coding: utf-8
+ * End:
+ */