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Subject: Re: setitimer timer expires too early
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Nish Aravamudan wrote:

> Perhaps not discussed before, but definitely a known issue. Check out
> sys_nanosleep(), which adds an extra jiffy to the delay if there is
> going to be one. My patch, which uses human-time (or at least more so
> than currently), should not have issues like this.

What would be then the most precise and reliable delaying possibility in 
the present kernel?