Re: setitimer timer expires too early

From: Olivier Croquette
Date: Sat Apr 30 2005 - 10:35:00 EST


Nish Aravamudan wrote:

Perhaps not discussed before, but definitely a known issue. Check out
sys_nanosleep(), which adds an extra jiffy to the delay if there is
going to be one. My patch, which uses human-time (or at least more so
than currently), should not have issues like this.

What would be then the most precise and reliable delaying possibility in the present kernel?

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