Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:39:25 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: lu ping <luping.nju@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sleep in freebsd kernel Message-ID: <20070205033925.GA1620@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <e80b0eb70702031328x43e742e8m90f9facfc1ec3ff1@mail.gmail.com> References: <e80b0eb70702031328x43e742e8m90f9facfc1ec3ff1@mail.gmail.com>
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lu ping wrote this message on Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 16:28 -0500:
> I have a question about making my kernel thread sleep for a while. I think I
> can use "tsleep", but the timeout for this call is only counted as system
> ticks (usually at millisecond granularity). However I want to make my
> "sleep" return in microsecond granularity. Does anybody know how to realize
> this?
Take a look at DELAY(9)... This busy waits instead of sleeping...
FreeBSD currently doesn't have a method to make a kernel thread sleep
for sub-hz granularity...
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