Re: Implementing sleep() inside the kernel

From: Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 14 2000 - 12:26:17 EST


On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:11:14AM -0700, Aamir Shaikh wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to implement some sleep inside the kernel that would sleep
> for some microseconds before sending packets out on the network...
> Is there a way this can be implemented without using a dumb spin loop...
> I don't want to tie up my processor down...

If you sleep for more than 1/HZ seconds you can use timers. If you don't
you have to use udelay, at least currently.

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