RE: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Al Boldi
2005-07-14T17:48:02Z

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with "jiffies", and anybody who
> thinks that
>
> msleep(20);
>
> is fundamentally better than
>
> timeout = jiffies + HZ/50;
>

What's wrong with structured programming?