Re: kernel timers vs network card interrupt

From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Date: Fri Jul 05 2002 - 23:21:32 EST

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On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Xinwen - Fu wrote:

> In fact I want a timer (either in user level or kernel level).
> This timer (hope it is a periodic timer) must expire at the interval that
> I specify. For example, if I
> want that the timer expires at 10ms, it should never be fired at
> 10.0000000001ms or
> 9.9999999999ms. That is the key part that I want!

If you find a way to do picosecond latency on a PC let us know. I (a)
don't believe you need any such thing, and (b) think this is a troll. Or
is the femtosec?

-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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