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diff --git a/common/timer.c b/common/timer.c index 0442c44..0a11dc8 100644 --- a/common/timer.c +++ b/common/timer.c @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ +/** + * @file timer.c + * Timer handling implementation. Currently we only expect an architecture to + * support a single timer per core. + * + * By keeping all timers in a binary search + * tree ordered by time, we can just set the single timer to interrupt us when + * the next timer is due and with thread info call the thread that set the + * timer. From what I can tell, this is largely what Linux does. + * + * \todo Figure out if there are any advantages to having multiple concurrent + * timers. + */ + #include <apos/sp_tree.h> #include <apos/string.h> #include <apos/nodes.h> |