On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:54:04 +0200 Eli Billauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, July 27th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Gilad > Ben-Yossef's talk > > How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel: This definitely calls for the Groucho Marx quote: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" > > Abstract > > This lecture describes the Linux time keeping mechanism and related > features, covering: > > * Jiffies and HZ: how the Linux kernel measure the passing of time > * Hi-Res Timers: Accuracy and precision of the Linux time keeping code > * Clock sources: abstractions of time keeping hardware > * Tick-less kernel: how the above contribute to a better Linux > performance in real time, power consumption and virtualization domains > > > ================================================================= > > We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: > http://www.haifux.org/where.html > > Attendance is free, and you are all invited! > > ================================================================== > Future lectures: > > 10/8/09 GCC Profile Guided Optimization: Shachar Shemesh > 17/8/09 Mesh networking; kernel, netlink and transport layer sockets: > Rami Rosen > > ================================================================== > > We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to > give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be > interested in, please contact us at [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
