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

Chris Friesen
2005-07-14T17:14:05Z

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;
>
> just doesn't realize that the latter is a bit more complicated exactly
> because the latter is a hell of a lot more POWERFUL.

But if all I really want is to sleep for 20ms, what does the additional
power actually buy me?

Chris