Re: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday -- seen similar problem on PPC

[Alan Cox]

> barn.  You will need to request a getnanotimeofday() be created if you
> want to allow two consecutive calls to always return different values
> (modulo SMP systems and ~13 more years of Moore's Law)

Or you use rdtsc instructions for x86. There intel do guarantee that no two
rdtsc's execute in parallel on the same cpu and it counts in cpu clocks.

Unfortunately rdtsc is only on newer x86 cpus and not useful in some smp
configurations