Re: 2.0.30 serial.c, ppp.c and pppd-2.2 questions

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:40:38 +0100 (BST)


> This assumes that we aren't stuck running other tasks for more
> than 10ms (including all interrupts that may occur). When the
> timer task queue takes longer than a jiffy to work through,
> we aren't able to flip every jiffy.

No no - its worse than that. A 1mS delay to the schedule() call adds
another 10% of chars to the flip buffer...

Alan