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[API-NEXT,v7,6/9] api: time: make odp_local_time to be monotonic wall time

Message ID 1449251494-23210-7-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org
State Accepted
Commit 28b938e5ab8cdf120ce1982c57d2f7b4ab4c04ba
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Ivan Khoronzhuk Dec. 4, 2015, 5:51 p.m. UTC 
It's more convenient the local time to be a monotonic wall time.
That means time starts from 0 and not wraps. It allows to use local
time in similar manner as it's supposed to be used with global time
and the 64-bit timer is enough to guarantee it.

Reviewed-by: Petri Savolainen <petri.savolainen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org>
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 include/odp/api/time.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/include/odp/api/time.h b/include/odp/api/time.h
index 50a0bf5..9865d81 100644
--- a/include/odp/api/time.h
+++ b/include/odp/api/time.h
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@  extern "C" {
  * Current local time
  *
  * Returns current local time stamp value. The local time source provides high
- * resolution time.
+ * resolution time, it is initialized to zero during ODP startup and will not
+ * wrap around in at least 10 years.
  *
  * @return Local time stamp.
  */