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From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@math.leidenuniv.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in select() (was Re: {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 05:52:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030128105201.GA1243@mark.mielke.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030128094500.GA26202@bjl1.asuk.net>

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:45:00AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > ( if Tms > 0 )
> Which is unfortunate, because that doesn't allow for a value of Tms ==
> 0 which is needed when you want to sleep and wake up on every jiffie
> on systems where HZ >= 1000.  Tms == 0 is taken already, to mean do
> not wait at all.

To some degree, isn't this the equivalent of yield()?

mark

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-22  6:55 {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout Lennert Buytenhek
2003-01-22  8:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-22 12:46   ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-22 13:20     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-22 19:14       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-22 19:34         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-22 19:32           ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-23 14:07   ` Davide Libenzi
2003-01-23 15:43     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-23 17:27       ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-23 18:28         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-23 20:40           ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-23 22:18             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-24 14:41               ` Andreas Schwab
2003-01-25  1:08               ` Davide Libenzi
2003-01-27 21:27               ` bug in select() (was Re: {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout) Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2003-01-27 22:52                 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-01-28  9:45                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-28 10:52                     ` Mark Mielke [this message]
2003-01-28 21:39                       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-28 22:15                     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-01-28 19:42   ` {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-28 21:36     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-28 21:44       ` David Mosberger

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