Re: [patch 0/5] Nano/Microsecond resolution for select() andpoll()

From: Brian Wellington
Date: Fri Aug 29 2008 - 18:24:15 EST


On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

Today in Linux, select() and poll() operate in jiffies resolution
(granularity), meaning an effective resolution of 1 millisecond (HZ=1000) to
10 milliseconds (HZ=100). Delays shorter than this are not possible, and all
delays are in multiples of this granularity.

Would a similar change also be useful for epoll_wait()? It's unfortunate
that there's no way to use epoll with more than millisecond granularity,
but it seems like the same arguments could be made as with poll().

Brian
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