Re: timeout value less than timer granularity

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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:43:06PM +0800, Daniel Marian wrote:
>    The tick in Linux is 10ms.

This is configurable and platform-specific.

> In my userspace program can I have a timeout value less than this granularity.
> 
> Example a timeout value of 4 milliseconds.
> If this is possible, how is this taken care by the kernel ?

Read Documentation/rtc.txt and see if it can solve your problem.

Cheers :)

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