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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: nanosleep
Date: 14 Apr 2002 13:37:22 -0700
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By author:    andrew may <acmay@acmay.homeip.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Make all your calls to nanasleep be less than 2ms, and loop through as
> many as you need until you are under 2ms.
> 
> Don't do it for too long because you get no other use out of your machine
> while your doing this but it does work.
> 

If you want to busy-wait, you might as well do it in userspace (use
RDTSC.)

Maybe a future version of the kernel will have more flexible
scheduling.

	-hpa

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