Re: Short sleep precision

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Mar 22 2005 - 10:24:00 EST


>> That's looks like a lot of CPU consumption, which I would like to avoid
>> because time_to_sleep is nondeterministic in my case.
>
> If you want to delay for less than a tick, you pretty much need to busy-wait.
> There's no way to set a timer for intervals less than a tick in the regular
> kernel.[...]

I bet I stay with my current approach -- count the time we actually slept, and
sleep less the next time. Thanks for your time and thoughts!


Jan Engelhardt
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