Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:18:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern), pc012@seqeb.gov.au (patrick collins) Subject: Re: Driver question on interval execution (polling?) Message-ID: <Mutt.19970224221840.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <331106DC.2781E494@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Feb 23, 1997 19:11:24 -0800 References: <199702240127.UAA04260@spoon.beta.com> <331106DC.2781E494@whistle.com>
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As Julian Elischer wrote: > the calls you want are > timeout(9) > untimeout(9) > tsleep(9) > and wakeup(9) > not all have man pages yet This time you err, Julian. :-) All of them have man pages already. OTOH, if your card design is not yet finalized, you might add a timer of your own onto the card, and have it raising an interrupt to your driver. That's probably more efficient than the rather high overhead of the timer queue. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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