Re: [LAD] Timers, hpet, hrtimer

From: <fons@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Nov 10 2009 - 20:06:48 EET

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:53:19PM +0200, Jussi Laako wrote:

> Brokenness is that JACK is not interested on those sub-timers and the
> driver should allocate those only via corresponding ioctl() and give
> unlimited read access to the global timer value without failing early...

If hpet services are available via the kernel (I assume in the
form of fine-grained sleep, usleep, timetouts, etc.) why should
Jack (or any app) use the HW timer directly ?

Ciao,

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FA
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