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Subject: Re: [9front] Speeding up snoopy(8)
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Quoth David Arroyo <droyo@aqwari.net>:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022, at 12:03, Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote:
> > It would be nice to have a way to get monotonic timestamps in userspace
> > without having to go into the kernel. For now, you can try nanosec and
> > see if anything changes.
> 
> I tried using nanosec, and that was sufficient for snoopy to keep up
> with a bit rate of 1.6 Gbps, with no overflows. Thank you for the tip!
> 
> David

...should we replace the nsec() function with it?

we may be able to stash nsec (and monotonic nsec?) at last
context switch into tos, and interpolate using cycles.