How the most finest 'tick count' I can get from ESP32 ?

[gearwalker]

Hello,

As the topic, I wanna get finest ticks from the system. Currently I can get ticks from FreeRTOS but resolution is not enough. I wonder that we can get something like 'Execution tick count' by some ways.

Thank you!

[ESP_igrr]

1. gettimeofday function. With default settings in menuconfig, gives you time at microsecond resolution. Timekeeping continues in deepsleep (but there is a bug in the current master branch which causes time to be reset when going to deep sleep; follow above link for a workaround).

2. CCOUNT CPU register (one on each CPU). Gives you number of CPU cycles since CPU has started. Counts ticks, so doesn't account for CPU frequency changes (not a problem now, but may be once we implement D(V)FS). Counters of the two CPUs are not synchronized in any way, so take care if your task has no CPU affinity.

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#include "xtensa/core-macros.h"
uint32_t ccount = XTHAL_GET_CCOUNT();

[gearwalker]

Many thanks!