http://www.redhat.co...ealtime/features/
High-resolution timers: MRG Realtime includes support for timers with nanosecond accuracy. Optimized gettimeofday(): Many applications frequently call gettimeofday() operations for things like timestamping in log files. MRG Realtime includes an optimized gettimeofday() implementation that does not incur a context switch, resulting in significantly improved performance.