Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:13:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [patch v2 0/5] Nano/Microsecond resolution for select() and poll() |
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Note: > even though poll() (as opposed to ppoll()) only accepts milliseconds > as userspace interface, the behavior will still improve because the current > time no longer needs to be rounded up to the next jiffie, so on average > a 500 microseconds behavior improvement.
Another way to get down in the timeout resolution for newer kernels, and still supporting the syscalls with millisec timeouts, is to use timerfds.
- Davide
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