From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to make a kernel thread sleep for a short amount of time?
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 23:36:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020704213652.GA24947@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D24BC95.3030006@candelatech.com>
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:22:29PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> I believe the answer may be to use some sort of timer and have my
> thread sleep on this timer, but I cannot find any examples or
> documentation on how to do this on the web.
The only generally available timer is the timer interrupt, sadly, which
ticks once every 10ms (or soon once every ms, according to Linus' bitkeeper
tree) on i386.
At OLS I was told of the existence of 'firm timers':
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~luca/firm.html
These might have use in the shaping world too.
Regards,
bert hubert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-04 21:34 UTC|newest]
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2002-07-04 21:22 Ben Greear
2002-07-04 21:36 ` bert hubert [this message]
2002-07-18 14:39 ` Corey Minyard
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