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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2007-02-16 04:28:11 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-16 11:13:59 -0500
commit54cdfdb47f73b5af3d1ebb0f1e383efbe70fde9e (patch)
treee2f76277f6b7546e53c3a1d025e31bceb10bbff5 /kernel/time
parentd40891e75fc1f646dce57d5d3bd1349a6aaf7a0e (diff)
[PATCH] hrtimers: add high resolution timer support
Implement high resolution timers on top of the hrtimers infrastructure and the clockevents / tick-management framework. This provides accurate timers for all hrtimer subsystem users. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index 9ec54eb3667f..f66351126544 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -13,3 +13,13 @@ config NO_HZ
13 This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will 13 This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will
14 only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is 14 only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is
15 busy and when the system is idle. 15 busy and when the system is idle.
16
17config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
18 bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
19 depends on GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
20 select TICK_ONESHOT
21 help
22 This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
23 hardware is not capable then this option only increases
24 the size of the kernel image.
25