前面已经讲过，高精度timer是通过hrtimer来实现的，hrtimer通过可编程定时器来现，在等待时，不占用CPU。
在用户态，只要我们调用usleep，则线程在kernel态执行时，则使用hrtimer进行不占CPU的等待。
在Kernel中如何使用的呢？
先看看eventpoll.c中的ep_poll函数：
static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
int maxevents, long timeout)
{
int res = 0, eavail, timed_out = 0;
unsigned long flags;
long slack = 0;
wait_queue_t wait;
ktime_t expires, *to = NULL;
if (timeout > 0) {
struct timespec end_time = ep_set_mstimeout(timeout);
slack = select_estimate_accuracy(&end_time);
to = &expires;
*to = timespec_to_ktime(end_time);
} else if (timeout == 0) {
/*
* Avoid the unnecessary trip to the wait queue loop, if the
* caller specified a non blocking operation.
*/
timed_out = 1;
spin_lock_irqsave(&ep->lock, flags);
goto check_events;
}
fetch_events:
spin_lock_irqsave(&ep->lock, flags);
if (!ep_events_available(ep)) {
/*
* We don't have any available event to return to the caller.
* We need to sleep here, and we will be wake up by
* ep_poll_callback() when events will become available.
*/
init_waitqueue_entry(&wait, current);
__add_wait_queue_exclusive(&ep->wq, &wait);
for (;;) {
/*
* We don't want to sleep if the ep_poll_callback() sends us
* a wakeup in between. That's why we set the task state
* to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE before doing the checks.
*/
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
if (ep_events_available(ep) || timed_out)
break;
if (signal_pending(current)) {
res = -EINTR;
break;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ep->lock, flags);
if (!schedule_hrtimeout_range(to, slack, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS))
timed_out = 1;
spin_lock_irqsave(&ep->lock, flags);
}
__remove_wait_queue(&ep->wq, &wait);
set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
}
check_events:
/* Is it worth to try to dig for events ? */
eavail = ep_events_available(ep);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ep->lock, flags);
/*
* Try to transfer events to user space. In case we get 0 events and
* there's still timeout left over, we go trying again in search of
* more luck.
*/
if (!res && eavail &&
!(res = ep_send_events(ep, events, maxevents)) && !timed_out)
goto fetch_events;
return res;
}
看到上面的schedule_hrtimeout_range(to, slack, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)了吗？它就是hrtimer中调用来执行等待超时的函数，其函数原型为：
/**
* schedule_hrtimeout_range - sleep until timeout
* @expires: timeout value (ktime_t)
* @delta: slack in expires timeout (ktime_t)
* @mode: timer mode, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS or HRTIMER_MODE_REL
*/
int __sched schedule_hrtimeout_range(ktime_t *expires, unsigned long delta,
const enum hrtimer_mode mode)
{
return schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock(expires, delta, mode,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
}
在ep_poll中，其slack和to的计算方法如下：
struct timespec end_time = ep_set_mstimeout(timeout);
slack = select_estimate_accuracy(&end_time);
to = &expires;
*to = timespec_to_ktime(end_time);
如果你在Kernel中需要高精度timer，可以参照此方法实现自己的高精度timer超时。