We often need ISO time + microseconds in traces and ring buffers, thus
function does this by calling gettimeofday() and keeping a cached value
of the part representing the tv_sec value, and only rewrites the microsecond
part. The cache is per-thread so it's lockless and safe to use as-is.
Some tests already show that it's easy to see 3-4 events in a single
microsecond, thus it's likely that the nanosecond version will have to
be implemented as well. But certain comments on the net suggest that
some parsers are having trouble beyond microsecond, thus for now let's
stick to the microsecond only.
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