From: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.jf.intel.com>
To: ganzinger@mvista.com, George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New high resolution time patch for 2.6.5 kernel
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:58:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404231558.42994.mgross@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4085D096.2060103@mvista.com>
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 18:38, George Anzinger wrote:
> The High Resolution Timers patch for the 2.6.5 kernel has just been posted
> on sourceforge.
>
> This patch provides an extension to the POSIX clocks and timers to define
> two new high resolution clocks (CLOCK_REALTIME_HR and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR).
> The resolution of these clocks can be set at CONFIGURE time, with the
> default being 10 micro seconds. The high res clocks can be used with
> clock_nanosleep() as well as with the POSIX timers.
>
> This version uses apic timers to obtain much better accuracy and
> simplicity.
Wow! for my systems this works really well! The jitter is significantly reduced. It would
be cool if this could find its way into a major developmet tree.
--mgross
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2004-04-21 1:38 [ANNOUNCE] New high resolution time patch for 2.6.5 kernel George Anzinger
2004-04-23 22:58 ` Mark Gross [this message]
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