>
> Ok,
> I made a 2.1.69 release that fixes up some of the more obvious problems
> with 2.1.68 wrt the sound driver and the fact that 68 can lock up
> mysteriously when compiled as SMP, usually pretty quickly. This also
> continues some of the integration work on getting pending code into the
> standard kernel.
>
> Anyway, I personally don't see anything major pending. There are still
> various fixes that have yet to be integrated (some of the smbfs work by
> Bill etc), but on the whole I'd call this feature-freeze time. Have fun,
>
> Linus
>
How about including Micro second resolution timers??
We have a patch for on demand microsecond resolution timers at
http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/projects/utime/
This would increase the accuracy of nanosleep, select and the other
stuff without much overhead. (Our estimation is that there is
an overhead of about 5-10 microseconds per interrupt) So if you
dont add micro second timers then the overhead is 10/10000= 0.1%
I think this is reasonable...
The dosemu team i think will also be interested in this...
Also, note that you can disable microsecond resolution timers
completely by a config option and hence people who dont want
it can have zero overhead
Please let me know what you think
Thanx
balaji
PS: There are a couple of bugs with this patch, but i think they
can be solved only with more major scale testing (read: by more
intelligent people)
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