Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:15:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Wellington <bwelling@xbill.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Nano/Microsecond resolution for select() and
 poll()
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> Today in Linux, select() and poll() operate in jiffies resolution
> (granularity), meaning an effective resolution of 1 millisecond (HZ=1000) to
> 10 milliseconds (HZ=100). Delays shorter than this are not possible, and all
> delays are in multiples of this granularity.

Would a similar change also be useful for epoll_wait()?  It's unfortunate
that there's no way to use epoll with more than millisecond granularity,
but it seems like the same arguments could be made as with poll().

Brian
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