Hi, On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Most comments last time were favorable. The one dissenter was Roman, > who worries about the overhead of using hrtimers for this operation; my > understanding is that he would rather see a really_msleep() function for > those who actually want millisecond resolution. I'm not sure how to > characterize what the cost could be, but it can only be buried by the > fact that every call sleeps for some number of milliseconds. On my > system, the several hundred total msleep() calls can't cause any real > overhead, and almost all happen at initialization time. The main point is still that these are two _different_ APIs for different usages, so I still prefer to add a hrsleep() instead. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
