Hello,

>> > You can spin on the gettimeofday() result in userspace.
>> How can I use it?
> Something like:
>
> gettimeofday(&curtime,0);
> add_usecs(&curtime,  time_to_sleep);
> do {
>       gettimeofday(&curtime,0);
> } while (time_before(&curtime, &expiry);

That's looks like a lot of CPU consumption, which I would like to avoid 
because time_to_sleep is nondeterministic in my case.


Jan Engelhardt
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