a more portable implementation for time measurements

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/common.h b/src/include/common.h
index 2fa61cc91..5df51c5a9 100644
--- a/src/include/common.h
+++ b/src/include/common.h
@@ -118,21 +118,6 @@ static inline int mac_not_zero(const unsigned char mac[6]) {
         return 0;
 }
 
-// rtdsc timestamp on x86-64/amd64  processors
-static inline unsigned long long getticks(void) {
-#if defined(__x86_64__)
-        unsigned a, d;
-        asm volatile("rdtsc" : "=a" (a), "=d" (d));
-        return ((unsigned long long)a) | (((unsigned long long)d) << 32);
-#elif defined(__i386__)
-        unsigned long long ret;
-        __asm__ __volatile__("rdtsc" : "=A" (ret));
-        return ret;
-#else
-        return 0; // not implemented
-#endif
-}
-
 void timetrace_start(void);
 float timetrace_end(void);
 int join_namespace(pid_t pid, char *type);