Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:46:12 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Short sleep precision |
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Hello,
>> > You can spin on the gettimeofday() result in userspace. >> How can I use it? > Something like: > > gettimeofday(&curtime,0); > add_usecs(&curtime, time_to_sleep); > do { > gettimeofday(&curtime,0); > } while (time_before(&curtime, &expiry);
That's looks like a lot of CPU consumption, which I would like to avoid because time_to_sleep is nondeterministic in my case.
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