Messages in this thread | | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: paper on fine-grained OS timers | Date | Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:46:11 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Mohit Aron wrote: [...] > http://www.cs.rice.edu/~aron/papers/soft-timers.ps.gz
Interesting material. Rate-based clocking with TCP and network polling may be somewhat controversial, but I can see good uses for certain short delays where hardware lacks the right interrupt capabilities (e.g. we have now ~200 mdelays and ~1300 udelays in the kernel - should be a great homework assignment for a large CS class to comb through that ;-), and for traffic shaping (i.e. rate-based clocking with a configured rate).
Do you plan to port and evaluate soft timers also to/on Linux ?
- Werner
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