Re: Q: waiting for a short time and not beeing a resource hog
Andreas Schuldei (schuldei@andrive.de)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:31:59 +0100
Quoting Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk):
> On Wed, Dec 01 1999, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> [waiting inside isr]
> > > Not in an interrupt context. Basically you can't sleep or
> > > schedule inside an interrupt handler. How long do you need
> > > to wait?
> > for 50 us (10000 ticks on a 200MHz machine).
> Bad hardware?
It is even more rediculous: it is needed in the communication with the
on-card-realtime-os.
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