time_windows.go

 1//go:build windows
 2
 3package platform
 4
 5import (
 6	"math/bits"
 7	"time"
 8	"unsafe"
 9)
10
11var (
12	_QueryPerformanceCounter   = kernel32.NewProc("QueryPerformanceCounter")
13	_QueryPerformanceFrequency = kernel32.NewProc("QueryPerformanceFrequency")
14)
15
16var qpcfreq uint64
17
18func init() {
19	_, _, _ = _QueryPerformanceFrequency.Call(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&qpcfreq)))
20}
21
22// On Windows, time.Time handled in time package cannot have the nanosecond precision.
23// The reason is that by default, it doesn't use QueryPerformanceCounter[1], but instead, use "interrupt time"
24// which doesn't support nanoseconds precision (though it is a monotonic) [2, 3, 4, 5].
25//
26// [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/profileapi/nf-profileapi-queryperformancecounter
27// [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/0cd309e12818f988693bf8e4d9f1453331dcf9f2/src/runtime/sys_windows_amd64.s#L297-L298
28// [3] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/0cd309e12818f988693bf8e4d9f1453331dcf9f2/src/runtime/os_windows.go#L549-L551
29// [4] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/time_windows.h#L7-L13
30// [5] http://web.archive.org/web/20210411000829/https://wrkhpi.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/getting-os-information-the-kuser_shared_data-structure/
31//
32// Therefore, on Windows, we directly invoke the syscall for QPC instead of time.Now or runtime.nanotime.
33// See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31160 for example.
34func nanotime() int64 {
35	var counter uint64
36	_, _, _ = _QueryPerformanceCounter.Call(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&counter)))
37	hi, lo := bits.Mul64(counter, uint64(time.Second))
38	nanos, _ := bits.Div64(hi, lo, qpcfreq)
39	return int64(nanos)
40}