This patch, in conjunction with the "core" high-res-timers
patch implements high resolution timers on the i386
platforms.  The high-res-timers use the periodic interrupt
to "remind" the system to look at the clock.  The clock
should be relatively high resolution (1 micro second or
better).  This patch allows configuring of three possible
clocks, the TSC, the ACPI pm timer, or the Programmable
interrupt timer (PIT).  Most of the changes in this patch
are in the arch/i386/kernel/timer/* code.

This patch uses (if available) the APIC timer(s) to generate
1/HZ ticks and sub 1/HZ ticks as needed.  The PIT still
interrupts, but if the APIC timer is available, just causes
the wall clock update.  No attempt is made to make this
interrupt happen on jiffie boundaries, however, the APIC
timers are disciplined to expire on 1/HZ boundaries to give
consistent timer latencies WRT to the system time.

With this patch applied and enabled (at config time in the
processor feature section), the system clock will be the
specified clock.  The PIT is not used to keep track of time,
but only to remind the system to look at the clock.  Sub
jiffies are kept and available for code that knows how to
use them.

Depends on the core high res timers patch.

Patch is against 2.5.46-bk1

This patch as well as the POSIX clocks & timers patch is
available on the project site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/

The 3 parts to the high res timers are:
 core		The core kernel (i.e. platform independent) changes
*i386		The high-res changes for the i386 (x86) platform
 posixhr	The changes to the POSIX clocks & timers patch to
use high-res timers

Please apply.
-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml