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From: anupam.kapoor@gmail.com (Anupam Kapoor)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: how to use wait_event_interruptible_timeout with less than 1 jiffie timeout?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:50:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1swsrfb.fsf@fatcat.parallelwireless> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF3SDA4OHvv0W40DVVwC_-zHXdzEQg2M2Yo0JiNb6XsLfnxgiQ@mail.gmail.com>


>>>>> [2016-01-20T01:21:18+0530]: "Daniel." (Daniel):
,----[ Daniel ]
| I have some code that convert an timeout comming from userspace (in
| ms) to jiffies prior passing to wait_event_interrupitible_timeout().
| The code looks like this:
| 
| unsigned long tout = user.timeout * HZ / 1000; /* convert from ms to jiffie */
| int status = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(wq, cond, tout);
| 
| I'm using HZ=100, the known default.
| The problem is: with HZ = 100 and user.timeout = 10 I have:
| 10 * 100 / 1000 = 1,
| 
| This means that I can't use timeouts with less than 10ms. Is there any
| way to circunvent this without changing HZ value?
`----
wouldn't msleep_interruptible(...) be a better choice ? as a bonus, it
takes care of jiffies wrapping etc. 

-- 
kind regards
anupam

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-20  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-19 19:51 how to use wait_event_interruptible_timeout with less than 1 jiffie timeout? Daniel.
2016-01-20  6:20 ` Anupam Kapoor [this message]
2016-01-20  8:25   ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2016-01-20 13:27     ` Anupam Kapoor
2016-01-20 15:01       ` Nicholas Mc Guire

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