From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
To: Simon White <s_a_white@email.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Best Kernel Timers?
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:34:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509281033420.14338@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050928100858.824F5101D9@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com>
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Simon White wrote:
> I posted a similiar question there but received no response. From
> what I can tell it is a frame work for providing hardware specific
> timer sources to the kernel and also exporting posix userspace
> system calls from the kernel. It may do more in kernel but haven't
> found exactly what it does, relevent docs? Also is this in mainline
> (or soon to be) or just patches against it?
This is in mainline since 2.6.10. You can define additional clocks.
CLOCK_MYCLOCK
and then register a new posix clock.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-28 10:08 Best Kernel Timers? Simon White
2005-09-28 11:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-09-28 17:34 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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2005-09-28 11:55 Simon White
2005-09-28 9:36 Simon White
2005-09-28 9:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-09-28 17:33 ` Christoph Lameter
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