On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 07:46, NucleoDyne Systems, Inc. wrote:
> Hello,
>       Let me explain the requirement a little more in detail.
> 
> Consider the routine sleep_on_timeout(, timeout) in sched.c:

please don't use this routine. It's severely deprecated.

> On  x86 the jiffies is updated every time PIT raises interrupt and
> do_timer() is called, i.e. once in every 10ms.

it's 1ms nowadays....