[HAIFUX LECTURE] How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel - Gilad Ben-Yossef

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

2009/11/22 Boris shtrasman <borissh1983 at gmail.com>

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> 2009/11/22 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>
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> On Monday, November 23rd (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
>> Gilad Ben-Yossef talk about
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>> How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel
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>> Abstract
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>> This lecture describes the Linux time keeping mechanism and related
>> features, covering:
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>>    - 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
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>> We meet in Taub (CS Faculty) building, room 6. For instructions see:
>> http://www.haifux.org/where.html
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>> Attendance is free, and you are all invited!
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>> Is there some way that the lectures will be uploaded to somewhere ?
> It sounds very interesting , but I live to far from there.
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With the speaker's permission, we sometimes audio record and upload the
talk. However, we no longer video.
Orna.
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