Linux Timer Resolution

Matt Grochowalski

I'm looking to use an Atom board with Ubuntu 16.04 for some soft-realtime software. I've found the Intel Atom x5 Z8300 Compute Stick only supports resolutions of 1 millisecond (1000000 nanoseconds).

What is the resolution of timers on this board (output of running "cat /proc/timer_list | grep resolution | uniq")?

Dan O'Donovan

Output from an UP board running ubilinux:

dan@up-ubilinux:~$ cat /proc/timer_list | grep resolution | uniq
  .resolution: 1 nsecs