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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
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On Gwe, 2005-07-15 at 00:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That's not what "jiffies" are about. If you want accurate time, use
> something else, like gettimeofday. The timeouts are _only_ relevant on the
> scale of a timer interrupt, since by definition that's what we're waiting
> for.

Ok makes sense - thats the same reason I wanted jiffies() - the timer
interrupt resolution might be useless at the given time (eg seconds). It
does mean people using while loops testing against jiffies are generally
wrong still.

Alan