Re: Microsecond Resolution Timers

Floody (flood@evcom.net)
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:44:06 -0500 (EST)


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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Balaji Srinivasan wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> We at the University of Kansas' Information Technology and
> Telecommunications center have been working on providing microsecond
> resolution timer support in kernel space. We now have a working
> patch which allows kernel routines to add timers (using a new call
> add_utimer) with microsecond resolution. This is compatible with
> the old add_timer call. We hope this patch is useful for a lot of you.

Excellent! How is the accuracy statistically speaking?

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