SGI hardware timer mapping
This code is provided as is. The code to actually map the hardware comes
from the SGI manual page for syssgi(2). Please give credit if you use large
portions of this code or a duplicate implementation.
Features
- A stack of timers, of which only the top is accumulating time, but all
are active.
- A time-stamp feature that allows a measurement independent of the stack
of timers.
- A customized time-stamp mechanism for measuring the frame rate.
Notes
There are two files, time.h and time.c. The header file is
quite straightforward. The implementation module uses some system calls to
determine what type of processor you have. This information is used to
determine the timer length (24, 32, or 64 bits). We only use the low-order
32-bits of the 64-bit timers. This gives a maximum length of about 90
seconds between accesses to a timer. Since we use this in a real-time
system, this is quite sufficient.
See the comments in the code for more details about the how and why.
- time.h
- time.c