On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:04 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> For the purpose of this discussion with ags, I do not think the actual
> definition of what an interrupt is, is quite so important, as much as how
> to achieve an end goal. On a single threaded "system", I also do not think
> asynchronous is really ever a factor. But I usually do tend to view
> interrupts as prioritized, and preemptive.
>

Additionally, what I proposed, should not interfere with system interrupts
much, if at all. But should complete the task as fast as the system would
allow, and is blocking in nature.

One thing I did not mention however, is that even though my idea is
blocking in nature, you can give processor back to the system by using
sleep(), or usleep(). Instead of continuously polling to the point that
you're keeping the processor so busy, it has little time to do anything
else.

In my use case, I think I used usleep() with a value of 10,000, which
seemed responsive enough for my purpose, and only used 1-3% processor
time.

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