On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 cwright@softpixel.com wrote: > > check out the posix high-res timers project > > sorry, maybe im just trolling, but the posix high-res stuff is crap. read the > man page on nanosleep, and you find it still is limited to the 10ms thing > (note, 10ms is on x86. it's 1ms on alpha i think). with special scheduling, > you can get 2ms, which would be cool. but, to get scheduling, you need > capabilities, which is awful to go through. further, it is not well documented > (at least i havnt found any docs. im sure they exist, and links will be sent. > thanks to those of you =). capabilities isn't really needed, but it allows you > to see if you are even allowed to reschedule (i haven't seen this priv in any > distro, nor do i know how to set it. my ignorance is probably a large part of > the problem) Try DSKI (http://www.ittc.ku.edu/datastream/) If u compile the UTIME part of it into the kernel you can get hires. HTH. ciao, Amit -- The statement below is true. The statement above is false. ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ Amit Kucheria EECS Grad. Research Assistant University of Kansas @ Lawrence (R)+1-(785)-830 8521 ||| (O)+1-(785)-864 7774 ____________________________________________________ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
