Time namespace

The time namespace support has been merged in the 5.6 kernel. The current implementation allows setting per-namespace offsets to the system monotonic and boot-time clocks.

The time namespace support in CRIU has been merged in the 3.14 release.

LWN article about time namespaces

Links

• 04/2020 [PATCH v3 0/6] arm64: add the time namespace support
• 01/2020 [GIT pull] timers/core for 5.6-rc1
• 11/2019 PATCHv8 00/34 kernel: Introduce Time Namespace
• 02/2019 PATCH 00/32 kernel: Introduce Time Namespace
• 11/2018 [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH-TOPIC] Multiple time domains
• 09/2018 LWN: Time namespaces
• 09/2018 RFC 00/20 ns: Introduce Time Namespace
• 06/2018 The progress of Time namespace
• 04/2017 Two Objects not Namespaced by the Linux Kernel
• 00/2017 VirtualTimeKernel
• 00/2016 Article about usage of time namespace in VirtualTimeKernel
• 08/2015 What's missing from upstream kernel containers?
• 09/2009 LPC2009
• 00/2006 Multiple Instances of the Global Linux Namespaces
• 04/2006 LWN: Virtual time