linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

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Message-ID: <20070803185429.GA20580@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:54:29 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers


* Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:

> Use hrtimers so that msleep() sleeps for the requested time
> 
> Current msleep() snoozes for at least two jiffies, causing msleep(1) 
> to sleep for at least 20ms on HZ=100 systems.  Using hrtimers allows 
> msleep() to sleep for something much closer to the requested time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>

still looks good to me.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

	Ingo
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