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From"Al Boldi" <>
SubjectRE: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
DateThu, 14 Jul 2005 20:42:17 +0300
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:37 -0700, 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;
>

What's wrong with structured programming?

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