What is the best way to introduce delay in kernel ?
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Apr 14 16:07:21 PDT 2005
In message: <20050412145401.GA17895 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Divacky Roman <xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz> writes:
: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:01:52PM +0530, Dipjyoti Saikia wrote:
: > Hi ,
: >
: > I am writing a device driver and using DELAY() to intoduce delays in
: > my code .Are there any better ways of doing the same for FreeBSD 4.10
: > ?
:
:
: you can use [tm]sleep for this... or with another approach callouts might be
: usefull
DELAY is useful for short delays (< 1-2hz), while [tm]sleep are useful
for longer delays.
Warner
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