Ramon van Handel wrote:
>
> Kevin Lawton wrote:
> > Which brings up something else. One nice thing to put into
> > open source OSes would be calling an interface to the VM
> > code to handle delay loops.
>
> Most OSes do this pretty well...
> If they can't fill up the delay, they call
> HLT to idle the processor.
I haven't looked at the Linux delay code for 2.4. How
do they handle delays for IO devices (based on bogomips)
these days? HLT is no problem to handle. Tight loops
are a waste in the VM.
-Kevin
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