High precision nanosleep removed?

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hello list,


the high precision sleep was removed, as this changeset says. Can anybody shed
some more light on why it is a special case after all?

|PatchSet 3949
|Date: 2002/09/26 05:04:43
|Author: torvalds
|Branch: HEAD
|Tag: (none)
|Log:
|Remove busy-wait for short RT nanosleeps. It's a random special case
|and does the wrong thing for higher HZ values anyway.
|BKrev: 3d92875bgaJQe6_FSRDwHLDYHwPTgw
|
|Members:
|        ChangeSet:1.3949->1.3950
|        kernel/timer.c:1.22->1.23



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