Hello Parag and George,
Thanks for immediate reply. The main problem is I am working on a SMP system. I have written a small program that just calls the gettimeofday(), one billion times. I have run it with time utility and it takes almost double time on SMP then a UP.
If the hardware is known in advance, can you use some arch-specific thing (like rdtsc on intel) to get a timestamp that can then be calibrated by calling gettimeofday() at a lower frequency?
There will be issues (may have to use cpu affinity if the two don't run at the same rate, may need to disable any frequency stepping), but it might be possible to work around them.
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