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To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. 
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <200011170655.eAH6tCJ05746@gratis.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes:
>Hi all
>
>I need a fast-as-possible "time" inside the kernel to help
>speed up the /dev/random device. I say "time", because although
>it needs to be a function of time (preferably accurate and linear),
>it has no need whatsoever to be "real time", so a simple counter
>is quite OK.

Please don't call it *time() when it isn't returning that.

monoticks(), monojiffies(), monocycles(), monomumble(), anything
but monotime().

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