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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 01:16:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers
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Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I'd be surprised if there was significant overhead - the maximum frequency
> at which msleep() can be called is 1000Hz.  We'd need an awful lot of
> overhead for that to cause problems, surely?
> 
> <thinks he's missing something again>

_Anybody_ has yet to answer what's wrong with adding a nanosleep() and 
using that instead.

bye, Roman
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