Re: What's the timeslice size for kernel 2.6.0-test2, IA32?

From: Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 14:29:02 EST


Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:04:46PM -0230, Stephen Anthony wrote:
>
>>It would be great if sleeps were 1ms accurate instead of 10ms. It would
>>make synchronization code a lot easier.
>
>
> Doesn't this depend on what HZ you define for the kernel?
>
> If you want 1ms sleep, just set HZ to 1000HZ+, and give your process a
> high priority?
>
> mark
>

 From user space, at least, you can configure /dev/rtc to 1024HZ and then
select on it's file descriptor. That will give you fairly reliable 1ms (or so)
sleeps, especially if you set your niceness to a high-priority setting.

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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