Re: How to make a kernel thread sleep for a short amount of time?

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 16:36:52 EST

Next message: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: "Re: [PATCH] 2.5.24 IDE 97"
Previous message: Stephen Tweedie: "Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?"
In reply to: Ben Greear: "How to make a kernel thread sleep for a short amount of time?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:22:29PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> I believe the answer may be to use some sort of timer and have my
> thread sleep on this timer, but I cannot find any examples or
> documentation on how to do this on the web.

The only generally available timer is the timer interrupt, sadly, which
ticks once every 10ms (or soon once every ms, according to Linus' bitkeeper
tree) on i386.

At OLS I was told of the existence of 'firm timers':
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~luca/firm.html

These might have use in the shaping world too.

Regards,

bert hubert

-- 
http://www.PowerDNS.com          Versatile DNS Software & Services
http://www.tk                              the dot in .tk
http://lartc.org           Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: "Re: [PATCH] 2.5.24 IDE 97"
Previous message: Stephen Tweedie: "Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?"
In reply to: Ben Greear: "How to make a kernel thread sleep for a short amount of time?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jul 07 2002 - 22:00:13 EST