Timers and time management

This chapter describes timers and time management related concepts in the linux kernel.

• Introduction - this part is introduction to the timers in the Linux kernel.
• Introduction to the clocksource framework - this part describes clocksource framework in the Linux kernel.
• The tick broadcast framework and dyntick - this part describes tick broadcast framework and dyntick concept.
• Introduction to timers - this chapter describes timers in the Linux kernel.
• Introduction to the clockevents framework - this part describes yet another clock/time management related framework - clockevents.
• x86 related clock sources - this part describes x86_64 related clock sources.
• Time related system calls in the Linux kernel - this part describes time related system calls.