Re: [ANNOUNCE] New high resolution time patch for 2.6.5 kernel

[Mark Gross]

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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