Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:40:56 -0500 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: {sys_,/dev/}epoll waiting timeout |
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:28:31PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mark Mielke wrote: > > Or, fix sys_poll(). With the +1, this means that sys_poll() would have > > a 1 in 1001 chance per second of returning one jiffie too early. > Nope. Read the expression again.
Sorry... not 1 in 1001... almost 100% chance of returning of one jiffie too many. In practice, even on a relatively idle system, the process will not be able to wake up as frequently as it might be able to expect.
mark
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