Re: [PATCH 4/5] select: make select() use schedule_hrtimeout()

Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-29T15:36:30Z

On Friday 29 August 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> This is only done for delays shorter than 1 second; currently
> the assumption is that longer delays have no desire to get the
> higher accuracy.

What is the tradeoff here? Where is the advantage in using the
traditional timer interface for longer timeouts?