Tag Archives: timer

KT – use kernel timers in the Linux kernel

Posted on July 9, 2014 by daveti

Compared to start a timer directly in certain kernel thread which will make the thread sleep for a while, using a kernel timer may be much more desired without stopping the current working thread. This post demonstrates a live example … Continue reading →

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timer queue – a way to handle multiple timers using one thread

Posted on September 28, 2013 by daveti

This post introduces a general way to handle multiple timers using one thread using C. K.R.K.C. -daveti 1. what is timer? The essence of timer is eventually a thread (either Python or Java threads are actually mapped and executed as … Continue reading →

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