Hi,
I need to call a function once in every 1 second, but the restriction is that I am not allowed to call any timer based call.

Is this possible using any C functions/login ?


Thanks,
Barun

Hi

how about using gettimeofday? so the idea is you do looping, call gettimeofday, so how far it advances....when it is bigger or equal than 1 secs..then shoot.

The drawback here is: since you do tight polling, your CPU utilization might be high. To reduce that, maybe you could call sched_yield() in between gettimeofday() calls.

gettimeofday() is also a timer function.
Can we have some other mechanism ?

hi

maybe you can mimic what linux kernel does when calculating BogoMIPS.

So the idea is, you predict how much iterations it takes during one second. It could be derived using the following shell command:
$grep mips /proc/cpuinfo
bogomips : 3657.19
bogomips : 3657.65

So, roughly it means that in one second, you could do about 3 thousands and 6 hundreds empty loop. Then you could easily create such loop using any syntax you like. BTW, mind you, this is just an approximation, so no guarantee on precision.

PS: watch out for frequency scaling too. It might ruin this BogoMIPS....