Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:43:04 -0500 From: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'ticks' in kernel. Message-ID: <3E653A08.7090107@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <20030304.154113.90196009.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <3E64E941.3030205@digitaldaemon.com> <20030304.104403.34570707.imp@bsdimp.com> <3E64F7B2.9040008@digitaldaemon.com> <20030304.154113.90196009.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: >In message: <3E64F7B2.9040008@digitaldaemon.com> > Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> writes: >: How would they return me the 'value' of 'ticks'? >: >: The problem is... I have a value's somewhere that has been assigned from >: 'ticks', like: >: ptr -> value = ticks; >: >: at an other moment I need to do something like... >: >: age = boottime + ( ticks - ptr -> value ) / factor; >: >: The problem in the second case however is that I can not seem to get to >: 'ticks' as it is userland code... > >ptr->value should be set with getmicrotime() or microtime(). You can >then do a gettimeofday in userland to figure out the age. > I agree with you. Except that ptr->value is tcpcb->t_starttime which is being set in the kernel... For the rest, see my other email that I forgot (but now did) sent to the group. Thanks for the help though. Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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