Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [rfc] aio-core for 2.5.29 (Re: async-io API registration for 2.5.29) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 01 Aug 2002 18:30:41 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 17:09, Linus Torvalds wrote: > However, "jiffies" are not really real time, they are only a "reasonable > abstraction thereof", and while they imply ordering ("time_after()" works > fine inside the kernel), they do _not_ imply real time. > > In other words, there is no way to move from time -> jiffies and back.
For a lot of applications like multimedia you actually want a counting of time not any relation to real time except that you can tell how many ticks elapse a second.
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