Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751421AbVI1RgO (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:36:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751461AbVI1RgO (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:36:14 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:25825 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751421AbVI1RgN (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:36:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:34:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Simon White cc: Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Best Kernel Timers? In-Reply-To: <20050928100858.824F5101D9@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: References: <20050928100858.824F5101D9@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 798 Lines: 20 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/