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Re: Wait for two clock ticks

hi...

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Asim <linkasim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to wait in a while loop for two clock ticks. I was
> wondering how do I do this. I do not want to use jiffies since
> interrupts may be disabled in this loop. Any help?

assumming your processor running constantly (no processor frequency
changing such as using frequency governor), perhaps you can use this
idea:

check how many empty loops are done when two ticks are done. then use
it loop as many as two ticks.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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