Re: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:57:07 +0100 (BST)


> Suppose I loop against xtime reaching a particular value. While this is

xtime isnt used this way that I can see. jiffies however is. There are good
arguments for getting rid of most [ab]use of jiffies however. For one its
pretty important to scaling on both big mainframes and beowulf setups doing
heavy computation to reduce timer ticks
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