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.