Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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 >
Unfortunately, no. That enhancement is outside the scope of this project. As more pieces of the tickless project integrate, the added overhead of having a higher rate clock will be reduced. Which I imagine will be beneficial for everyone. Thanks, Rafael
