On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:42:09 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> I briefly talked to Thomas about this earlier today and we need to fix > this at a lower level -- the quick 'n dirty solution is to add 1 jiffy > down in the timer-wheel when we enqueue these things. That can lead to situations like the one I encountered years ago where msleep(1) would snooze for 20ms. I didn't get much love for my idea of switching msleep() to hrtimers back then, but I still think it might be be better to provide the resolution that the interface appears to promise. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
