// Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. // // High resolution timer functions for use in Linux. #ifndef CHROME_BROWSER_SYNC_UTIL_HIGHRES_TIMER_LINUX_H_ #define CHROME_BROWSER_SYNC_UTIL_HIGHRES_TIMER_LINUX_H_ #include "base/basictypes.h" #include <sys/time.h> const uint64 MICROS_IN_SECOND = 1000000L; // A handy class for reliably measuring wall-clock time with decent resolution. // // We want to measure time with high resolution on Linux. What to do? // // RDTSC? Sure, but how do you convert it to wall clock time? // clock_gettime? It's not in all Linuxes. // // Let's just use gettimeofday; it's good to the microsecond. class HighresTimer { public: // Captures the current start time. HighresTimer(); // Captures the current tick, can be used to reset a timer for reuse. void Start(); // Returns the elapsed ticks with full resolution. uint64 GetElapsedTicks() const; // Returns the elapsed time in milliseconds, rounded to the nearest // millisecond. uint64 GetElapsedMs() const; // Returns the elapsed time in seconds, rounded to the nearest second. uint64 GetElapsedSec() const; uint64 start_ticks() const { return start_ticks_; } // Returns timer frequency from cache, should be less overhead than // ::QueryPerformanceFrequency. static uint64 GetTimerFrequency(); // Returns current ticks. static uint64 GetCurrentTicks(); private: // Captured start time. uint64 start_ticks_; }; inline HighresTimer::HighresTimer() { Start(); } inline void HighresTimer::Start() { start_ticks_ = GetCurrentTicks(); } inline uint64 HighresTimer::GetTimerFrequency() { // Fixed; one "tick" is one microsecond. return MICROS_IN_SECOND; } inline uint64 HighresTimer::GetCurrentTicks() { timeval tv; gettimeofday(&tv, 0); return tv.tv_sec * MICROS_IN_SECOND + tv.tv_usec; } inline uint64 HighresTimer::GetElapsedTicks() const { return start_ticks_ - GetCurrentTicks(); } #endif // CHROME_BROWSER_SYNC_UTIL_HIGHRES_TIMER_LINUX_H_