[Vm-dev] Linux VM and Delay.

[Gary Chambers]

I'll try it. To be fair, for our application 100% cpu might not be a bad
thing ;-)

Next week when I'm in the office I'll give it a go. Perhaps tweaking the
idle process
will free some cpu if a problem. The
ioRelinquishProcessorForMicroseconds(us) will still get called.

More important for the app is timely responses to delay semaphores.

Thanks for the responses!

-----Original Message-----
From: vm-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:vm-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Ian Piumarta
Sent: 14 June 2007 4:20 pm
To: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Linux VM and Delay.


 
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Gary Chambers wrote:
>>   if (now - lastInterruptCheck > (1000/25))	/* avoid thrashing intr
>> checks from 1ms loop in idle proc  */
>
> I don't think that in this day and age doing a 1000 interrupt
> checks/sec can be considered "thrashing" ;-) I'd just remove it and  
> get the 1ms time resolution back.

The other thing you're likely to get back is 100% CPU usage.  But by  
all means, try it.

Cheers,
Ian