Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:10:07 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with "jiffies", and anybody who thinks > that > > msleep(20); > > is fundamentally better than > > timeout = jiffies + HZ/50; > > just doesn't realize that the latter is a bit more complicated exactly > because the latter is a hell of a lot more POWERFUL.
But if all I really want is to sleep for 20ms, what does the additional power actually buy me?
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