For those interested, I migrated George Anzinger's high-res-timers patch
to linux-2.6.8.1.
Available at:
<http://tree.celinuxforum.org/pubwiki/moin.cgi/PatchArchive>
The set of patches provide POSIX high resolution timer support. See the
SourceForge project pages for more info:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/>.
-Geoff