From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nanosleep
Date: 14 Apr 2002 13:37:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9cpa2$36i$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020410055708.9474.qmail@fastermail.com> <1018418496.903.228.camel@phantasy> <20020413145306.A29006@ecam.san.rr.com>
Followup to: <20020413145306.A29006@ecam.san.rr.com>
By author: andrew may <acmay@acmay.homeip.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Make all your calls to nanasleep be less than 2ms, and loop through as
> many as you need until you are under 2ms.
>
> Don't do it for too long because you get no other use out of your machine
> while your doing this but it does work.
>
If you want to busy-wait, you might as well do it in userspace (use
RDTSC.)
Maybe a future version of the kernel will have more flexible
scheduling.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-14 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 5:57 nanosleep mark manning
2002-04-10 6:01 ` nanosleep Robert Love
2002-04-13 21:53 ` nanosleep andrew may
2002-04-14 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2002-04-10 4:42 nanosleep mark manning
2002-04-10 5:47 ` nanosleep H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-10 4:41 nanosleep mark manning
2002-04-10 5:57 ` nanosleep Robert Love
2002-04-10 3:22 nanosleep mark manning
2002-04-09 23:24 nanosleep mark manning
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