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Re: threads!
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: threads! |
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Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:27:05 +0200 |
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:39:15PM -0000, kurian kattukaren wrote:
>
> >>"kurian kattukaren" <kjk_bugs@rediffmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Will this do for schedule_timeout().
> >BSG replied:
> >It's not the best way.
>
> >The "canonical" way to write timeout-like functions is >to keep track of a
> >queue of timout requests, and have a >thread whose job is to sleep until the
> >top item in the >queue is ready, and then call its function.
>
> Any info on how to accomplish the above , along with links to thread
> tutorials are also welcome.
>
> thanking you,
> kurian joseph
> "knowledge shared spreads geometrically"
>
The Linux timer emulation code you used already does this
(pfinet/timer-emul.c). If this is not what Thomas meant, I don't know what
else it could be.
Thanks,
Marcus
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