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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? Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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