[coyotos-dev] coyotos.sleep, sleepTill, the epoch

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 18:30 +0000, Sam Mason wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:40:49PM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > Something you definitely do NOT want is a 1ms granularity interrupt to
> > maintain a tick counter. On current hardware this will account for a
> > measurable fraction of the machine.
> 
> Yes, I was very surprised when Linux got this!

Among real-time developers, I think it is generally accepted that a
"tick" clock is a bad idea, and in any case it has nothing to do with
the scheduling problem -- in fact, the tick clock itself needs to be
scheduled!


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