Re: select takes too much time

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Ram Gupta wrote:

>> Of course you can't get lower resolution than 1/HZ, unless you're using
>> a kernel with high-res timers. It's always been like that.
>> But it's not Ram's problem, because he's requesting a timeout of 90ms,
>> which is much longer than one tick even with HZ=100.
>>
>> Michal
>>
>
> So it seems that the only solution to return back right away after
> timeout is to play around with the scheduler or put the process doing
> select at the front of the queue so it get a chance to run first.
> Is there any other better way to do it?
>
 	nice(-19);


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.15.4 on an i686 machine (5589.54 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction, book release in April.
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