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Re: timeout value less than timer granularity

Daniel,

It probably won't work, that is the timeout will occur only at 10ms, 
that is per tick(timer interrupt)

Amit


Daniel Marian wrote:
> 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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