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SubjectRe: Task queue makes slow device even slower
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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