Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:58:35 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Imprecise timers. |
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Hi!
> Instead a rounded timer after 5 seconds still ensures atleast 1s idle time on > the CPU without the overhead. > > There can be many users who really don't care about the deadline or can happliy > use rounded timers or deferrable timers. Say garbage collectors, cache_reap > and friends, ondemand governor, vga cursor blinking comes to my mind.
Ok, maybe.
But don't try to play with vga cursor blinking; any irregularity there will be _very_ visible_.
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