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authorKevin Wang <kevin.wang@arm.com>2017-07-20 11:43:26 +0800
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@linaro.org>2017-12-27 21:58:42 +0300
commit9a8f2f65248ecac1629d7bb7827c3d9bb9ade9bc (patch)
tree3a703dcd184582edba26c733e71ddeec06670b1b /doc
parent9096e0d49310749f63c29dda2c4530ff9e3e93e8 (diff)
doc: userguide: add odp_timer_capability() section to user guide
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wang <kevin.wang@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Brooks <brian.brooks@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Bill Fischofer <bill.fischofer@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@linaro.org>
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@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ timing features found in various platforms that support ODP implementations.
Timers are drawn from specialized pools called _timer pools_ that have their
own abstract type (`odp_timer_pool_t`). Each timer pool is a logically
independent time source with its own _resolution_ measured in nanoseconds (ns)
-and a maximum number of timers that it can support. Applications can have many
+and a maximum number of timers that it can support. The max _resolution_ is
+able to be obtained from `odp_timer_capability()`. Applications can have many
timers active at the same time and can set them to use either relative or
absolute time. Associated with each timer is a queue that is to receive events
when this timer expires. This queue is created by a separate