nanosleep with small value

[Dag Nygren <dag@newtech.fi>]

Hi,

seeing a strange thing happening here:
using nanosleep() with a smallish value gives me a very long sleeptime?

Is this because of a context switch being forced?
Shouldn't the scheduler change affect that?

The test program:
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#include <time.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void delay_ns(unsigned long dly)
{
        static struct timespec time;
        int err;
        {
                time.tv_sec = 0;
                time.tv_nsec = dly;
                err = nanosleep(&time, NULL);
                if (err) {
                        perror( "nanosleep failed" );
                }
        }
}


main()
{
        int i;

        struct sched_param mysched;
        int err;

        if ( sched_getparam( 0, &mysched ) != 0 )
                perror( "" );
        else {
                mysched.sched_priority = sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_FIFO);
                err = sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_FIFO, &mysched);
                if( err != 0 ) {
                        fprintf (stderr,"sched_setscheduler returned: %d\n", 
err );
                        perror( "" );
                }
        }

        for (i=0; i < 1000; i++)
                delay_ns(1000UL);
}
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The result running this is:
% time ./tst

real    0m8.000s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

I would have expected about 1000 * 1 us + overhead,
but 8 seconds ????

Noticed this when trying to debug a PIC-programming
software where the delay_ns() routine is used.

Increasing the nanosleep() argument to something more than HZ
will give me the expected sleep times.

Best

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