Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:05:54 +0200 | From | almesber@lrc ... | Subject | Re: Task queue makes slow device even slower |
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Alan Cox wrote: > You are constrained by timer resolution. Do you have a spare timer and irq > you can rig for this.
As a long-term solution, perhaps something along the lines of the "soft timers" described in http://www.cs.rice.edu/~aron/papers/soft-timers.ps.gz might be useful for many cases where we have udelays or even mdelays today.
- Werner
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