Hi all, Erik Walthinsen wrote: [...] > Yes, there are things called 'firm timers' that use the IO-APIC to > (transparently) give applications extremely high resolution on longer > sleeps. I've cc:'d the guy who's been working on the patch most > recently, maybe he's got a draft of his paper he's willing to post.
if someone is interested, I just prepared a small web page about firm timers: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~luca/firm.html On this page, you can find a small paper describing some experiments and a kernel patch implementing firm timers. Luca -- ========================================================== Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
