[Meego-kernel] APB Timer Module

Arjan van de Ven arjan at linux.intel.com
Sun Jan 16 22:01:23 PST 2011


On 1/16/2011 9:53 PM, MeForMeego Meego wrote:
> Thanks Arjan for the quick response,
>
> I am looking for a timer with resolution as low as 16us. Would a 
> normal userspace timer interface be able to provide this? So, was 
> wondering how to decouple and use this apb timer from the normal 
> jiffies/tick timer?
>

userspace does not see jiffies/tick......
the userspace timers (select and such) are all using the high resolution 
kernel timers internally..... not the jiffies based timer.



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