Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:04:37 +0000 From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: Dipjyoti Saikia <dipjyoti.saikia@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MDELAY() Message-ID: <84dead7205041506045923ca59@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <dcbc809d050415051659e65964@mail.gmail.com> References: <dcbc809d0504121403639b263f@mail.gmail.com> <20050412212044.GA9284@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <dcbc809d050415051659e65964@mail.gmail.com>
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> sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU cycles You may want to try the manual pages. % man -k sleep | fgrep '(9)' =20 endtsleep(9), sleepinit(9), unsleep(9) - manage the queues of sleeping proc= esses init_sleepqueues(9) ... sleepq_wait_sig(9) - manage the queues of sleeping threads sleep(9), msleep(9), tsleep(9), wakeup(9) - wait for events vm_page_sleep_busy(9) - wait for a busy page to become unbusy % man -k DELAY | fgrep '(9)' DELAY(9) - busy loop for an interval --=20 FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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