RE: [PATCH] provide hrtimer exports for module use [Was: Exportsfor hrtimer APIs]

["Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com>]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> What means "more for defining intervals" ? Which intervals  (period in
> ms)? What are the timers used for ?

The user can write a block of code that they would like to be executed
repeatedly in fixed intervals.  A trivial example might look like this:
    probe timer.ms(10) { flush_data(); }

This would flush the data every 10ms.

A example of polling might be:
    probe timer.ms(1) { log(scheduler_queue_length()); }

I hope this answers your questions...


Josh
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