Message-ID: <1086856855.40c81e9743fba@mailetu.utc.fr>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:40:55 +0200
From: eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: high-res-timers-discourse@lists.sourceforge.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] high-res-timers patches for 2.6.6
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Quoting William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 06:49:29PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > Available at 
> > http://tree.celinuxforum.org/pubwiki/moin.cgi/CELinux_5fPatchArchive
> > For those interested, the set of three patches provide POSIX high-res 
> > timer support for linux-2.6.6.  The core and i386 patches are updates of 
> > George Anzinger's hrtimers-2.6.5-1.0.patch available on SourceForge 
> > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/>.  The ppc32 port is 
> > not available on SourceForge yet.
> > -Geoff
> 
> I thought George Anzinger's high resolution timer patches had already
> been merged? At the very least there's already a kernel/posix-timers.c

Not exactly, what has been merged is only the POSIX interface of the timers. The
patches to obtain a high resolution (in the order of 10 microseconds instead of
1ms) are still out from the vanilla kernel.

Eric

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