Better timing code John Stultz has a new timer system Massive code cleanup Good handling of timer hardware Start working in nanoseconds units Nishanth Aravamudan goes further Replace jiffies with nsec_t Change timer APIs to work in nanoseconds Makes higher-resolution timers possible No more jiffies <--> time conversions Do we need a timer tick at all? Very costly Expecially for laptops and virtualized systems Dynamic tick patches make the tick go away Simply put system to sleep until something must happen