Re: nanosleep

["mark manning" <mark.manning@fastermail.com>]

hrm - im confiused now - how can you do a n NANO second delay when the resolution is 10 mili seconds ?

forgive my ignorance and my persistant "stupid" questions :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 	9 Apr 2002 22:47:42 -0700
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nanosleep


> Followup to:  <20020410044243.2916.qmail@fastermail.com>
> By author:    "mark manning" <mark.manning@fastermail.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > thanx - how much of a difference should i expect - i know the
> > syscall is asking for at least the required ammount but that the
> > task switcher might not give me control back for a while after the
> > requested delay but i was expecting to be a little closer to what i
> > had asked for - this isnt critical of corse but i would like to know
> > what to expect.
> > 
> 
> Read the man page:
> 
> BUGS
>        The current implementation of nanosleep is  based  on  the
>        normal  kernel  timer mechanism, which has a resolution of
>        1/HZ s (i.e, 10 ms on Linux/i386 and 1 ms on Linux/Alpha).
>        Therefore, nanosleep pauses always for at least the speci
>        fied time, however it can take up to  10  ms  longer  than
>        specified  until  the  process becomes runnable again. For
>        the same reason, the value returned in case of a delivered
>        signal  in *rem is usually rounded to the next larger mul
>        tiple of 1/HZ s.
> 
>        As some applications  require  much  more  precise  pauses
>        (e.g.,  in  order to control some time-critical hardware),
>        nanosleep is also capable of short high-precision  pauses.
>        If  the process is scheduled under a real-time policy like
>        SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR, then pauses of up to 2 ms will  be
>        performed as busy waits with microsecond precision.
> 
> 	-hpa
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