Linus Torvalds wrote:

There's absolutely nothing wrong with "jiffies", and anybody who thinks that

        msleep(20);

is fundamentally better than

        timeout = jiffies + HZ/50;

just doesn't realize that the latter is a bit more complicated exactly because the latter is a hell of a lot more POWERFUL.

But if all I really want is to sleep for 20ms, what does the additional power actually buy me?

Chris
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