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From: anupam.kapoor@gmail.com (Anupam Kapoor)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:57:27 +0530
Subject: how to use wait_event_interruptible_timeout with less than 1
	jiffie timeout?
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>>>>> [2016-01-20T13:55:54+0530]: "Nicholas Mc Guire" (Nicholas):
,----[ Nicholas ]
| that would still have the same limitation with resepct to time granuarlity
| and as Documentation/timers/
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ah yes, that's true.

,----[ Nicholas ]
| if you really need very short delays then you will need to resort to hrtimers
| (and thus be to some extent config dependent) usleep_range(min, max) is the 
| prefered interface in that case.
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any specific reason why schedule_hrtimeout(...) cannot be used ?

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anupam