Most accurate way to get elapsed time (in microseconds) on iMX6?

[EdSutter]

The gettimeofday() call returns microseconds.

Is this the most accurate method or is there a better way?

--EDIT--

I did a bit more snooping, and tried clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW,&t1)

to get a timestamp.  This appears to be reasonably accurate.  Does anyone have any experience

with this to agree or disagree?

Thoughts?

Ed

[igorpadykov · Accepted solution]

Hi Ed

proper to use clock_gettime, see below

c - Measure time in Linux - getrusage vs clock_gettime vs clock vs gettimeofday? - Stack Overflow

https://blog.habets.se/2010/09/gettimeofday-should-never-be-used-to-measure-time

Best regards

chip

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[EdSutter]

Chip,

Yep, that's what I ended up using.  Shoulda posted it a while back.

Thanks,

Ed