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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:25:36 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com> To: "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de> Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Roman Zippel" <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, "john stultz" <johnstul@...ibm.com>, "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com> Subject: Re: When did High-Resolution Timers hit mainline? On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> > Hmm, that's a bit backwards. We changed the internal handling of those >> > interfaces to hrtimers in 2.6.16, but the accuracy is still jiffies >> > unless you have CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS enabled (which is only possible >> > as of 2.6.21) and your system provides the necessary hardware. >> >> So then it's simply enough to say: >> >> Since Linux 2.6.17, Linux optionaly supports high-resolution timers >> (configurable via CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS). >> >> right? > > Make this 2.6.21 :) D'oh! Yes of course. Fingers were working, but Mr. Brain had long since departed... -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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