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From: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
To: Leo Prasath <leo.prasath@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yiying Zhang <eggbaby150@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: sleep in microsecond granularity in linux
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:11:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8yak4i1sqf2.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinjv_cLfZfNEf0LOxXAOEUNhsJ3uzPHiRVGGTWh@mail.gmail.com> (Leo Prasath's message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:33:34 -0600")

On Tue, Jan 18 2011, Leo Prasath wrote:

> Is it possible to sleep in granularity of microseconds ?
> From what i know, there is msleep() which can sleep in milliseconds
> and there is udelay() which busy waits for time in microsecond
> granularity.
> But I need to sleep ( not busy wait ) for granularity of microseconds ...

usleep_range()  See Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt for info, and
caveats.

David

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19  0:11 UTC|newest]

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2011-01-18 23:33 Leo Prasath
2011-01-19  0:11 ` David Brown [this message]

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