Stone wrote: > On 4/5/07, *Artur Skawina* <art_k@xxxxx <mailto:art_k@xxxxx>> wrote: > With the high-res timers in kernel 2.6.21+ usleep(1) is no longer > treated as > usleep(10000) and the streamdev client is almost unusable; it uses > most of the cpu > and causes hundreds of thousands context switches per second. > This gets rid of the almost-busy-loop. > How about his approach? > > --- streamdev/client/filter.c.orig 2007-04-05 20:45:04.000000000 -0700 > +++ streamdev/client/filter.c 2007-04-05 20:45: 44.000000000 -0700 > @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ > } > m_RingBuffer->Del(TS_SIZE); > } else > - usleep(1); > + cCondWait::SleepMs(1); > } > } sure, just changing it to 'usleep(10000)' works too. Is there a reason to avoid the ringbuffer infrastructure? artur
