Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Possible spin-problem in nanosleep() | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:18:12 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2005-06-24 at 12:42, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Are you saying that each might get the CPU from between 0 and 1 > tick, i.e., asynchronous with the tick? If so, depending upon the > phase between the timer-tick and when a task gets awakened, a task > may never get any CPU time at all. If so, this is a bug.
No I'm saying the samping rate of the timer tick limits the resolution of accounting of data (ie straight information theory limits)
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