Jerry Gilliam <jerry.gilliam at sun.com> wrote:
> 2. Project Summary
> 2.1. Project Description:
> The tickless project aims at implementing the services provided by the
> clock cyclic in an event driven fashion. The first sub-project is the
> decoupling of the lbolt and lbolt64 variables from clock(). These two
> variables are incremented at each firing of the clock cyclic and
> provide
> a time reference to the system. They are being replaced by two
> routines
> that are backed by gethrtime(), the existing ddi_get_lbolt() and
> the new ddi_get_lbolt64(), introduced as a migration path for existing
> non-DDI compliant consumers.
If this results in being able to sleep with less than 10 ms granularity without
setting a high-res tick, you get many + from me!
J?rg
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