root/src/pkg/runtime/time_plan9_386.c

DEFINITIONS

1. runtime·nanotime

// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors.  All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

#include "runtime.h"
#include "os_GOOS.h"
#include "../../cmd/ld/textflag.h"

#pragma textflag NOSPLIT
int64
runtime·nanotime(void)
{
        static int32 fd = -1;
        byte b[8];
        uint32 hi, lo;

        // As long as all goroutines share the same file
        // descriptor table we can get away with using
        // just a static fd.  Without a lock the file can
        // be opened twice but that's okay.
        //
        // Using /dev/bintime gives us a latency on the
        // order of ten microseconds between two calls.
        //
        // The naïve implementation (without the cached
        // file descriptor) is roughly four times slower
        // in 9vx on a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

        if(fd < 0 && (fd = runtime·open("/dev/bintime", OREAD|OCEXEC, 0)) < 0)
                return 0;
        if(runtime·pread(fd, b, sizeof b, 0) != sizeof b)
                return 0;
        hi = b[0]<<24 | b[1]<<16 | b[2]<<8 | b[3];
        lo = b[4]<<24 | b[5]<<16 | b[6]<<8 | b[7];
        return (int64)hi<<32 | (int64)lo;
}