* Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:42:09 +0100
> Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I briefly talked to Thomas about this earlier today and we need to
> > fix this at a lower level -- the quick 'n dirty solution is to add
> > 1 jiffy down in the timer-wheel when we enqueue these things.
>
> That can lead to situations like the one I encountered years ago
> where msleep(1) would snooze for 20ms. I didn't get much love for
> my idea of switching msleep() to hrtimers back then, but I still
> think it might be be better to provide the resolution that the
> interface appears to promise.
That looks like a sensible approach - mind resending that patch? We
can put it into the timer tree and see what happens.
Thanks,
Ingo
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