Re: [LAD] timers

2009/11/7 James Warden <warjamy(a)yahoo.com>om>: Thanks for your interrest. I found some kernel docu: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/timers/ And: http://lwn.net/Articles/167897/ Looks like HPET and RTC are hardware devices, where HPET is meant to be superior and replace the RTC. I still don't get: What is the HR-timer ? I mean how does it compare to the HPET ? When to decide for the HPET, when for the HRT api ? Does one if it depend on the other ? The kernel-devs seem to distinguish between "high-resolution clock" (=hpet ??) and HR-timer : " We used the high-resolution clock subsystem ontop of hrtimers to verify 152 the hrtimer implementation details in praxis ... " -- E.R.