> > a sigifigant time (ie, 0.25 to 1 second) if you haven't disabled
> > interrupts? ie, will you completely monopolize the cpu, or will the
> > scheduler kick you off until sometime shortly after the delay runs out?
>
> If you want more than about 1/100th of a second use a loop yielding CPU
> time. Better yet sleep and wakeup if your card can IRQ the event
>
> At minimum
>
> unsigned long time=jiffies+(msec*HZ)/1000;
> while(time_before(time, jiffies))
> schedule();
>
> or in an irq/bh set a timer to go off
Don't we now have schedule_timeout() to do this?
Matthew.
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