On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 18:26 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > Thanks Michael for reminding about the High Resolution Timers. I was > wondering for the test cases for the same, until somebody told me that > this may be available with Thomas. > > Thomas, > > Do you have those High Resolution Timers test cases available with > you, which you can contribute to LTP (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/) > under GPLv2. Your contribution will be a great value to the Linux test > community.
Hi Thomas, Can you kindly contribute those test cases to LTP. Regards-- Subrata > > Regards-- > Subrata > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Michael Kerrisk > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo, Thomas, > > I want to update some timer and sleep man pages to reflect the > arrival > of high-resolution timers. However, it's not quite clear to > me when > HRTs properly arrived in mainline. Was it 2.6.21? And at > that point, > was the resolution for all timer and sleep calls based on > HRTs, so > that they all became more accurate? (Or was it the case that > various > system calls switched over to HRTs in different later kernel > versions?) Specifically, I'm thinking of the following system > calls > > nanosleep() > clock_nanosleep() > setitimer() > timer_create()/timer_settime() > > Was it the case that pre 2.6.21 (or whatever) these were all > jiffy-based in their accuracy, and then post 2.6.21, they were > all HRT > based (if CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is enabled)? > > Cheers, > > Michael > -- > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > -- > Regards & Thanks-- > Subrata > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
