Re: Best Kernel Timers?

[Christoph Lameter]

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.

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