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Re: timeout value less than timer granularity

To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: timeout value less than timer granularity
From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:29:51 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20020403114306.29530.qmail@linuxmail.org>; from daniel_marian@linuxmail.org on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:43:06PM +0800
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:43:06PM +0800, Daniel Marian wrote:
>    The tick in Linux is 10ms.

This is configurable and platform-specific.

> 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 ?

Read Documentation/rtc.txt and see if it can solve your problem.

Cheers :)

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