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This adds some documentation about clock sources, clock events, the weak sched_clock() function and delay timers that answers questions that repeatedly arise on the mailing lists. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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00-INDEX
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- this file
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highres.txt
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- High resolution timers and dynamic ticks design notes
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hpet.txt
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- High Precision Event Timer Driver for Linux
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hpet_example.c
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- sample hpet timer test program
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hrtimers.txt
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- subsystem for high-resolution kernel timers
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Makefile
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- Build and link hpet_example
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NO_HZ.txt
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- Summary of the different methods for the scheduler clock-interrupts management.
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timekeeping.txt
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- Clock sources, clock events, sched_clock() and delay timer notes
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timers-howto.txt
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- how to insert delays in the kernel the right (tm) way.
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timer_stats.txt
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- timer usage statistics
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