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timeout value less than timer granularity

Hello,
   The tick in Linux is 10ms.
In my userspace program can I have a timeout value less than this granularity.

Example a timeout value of 4 milliseconds.
If this is possible, how is this taken care by the kernel ?

thanks,
daniel.
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