3 ms·Couldn't you switch on timeout using some kind of CPU counter, e.g. RDTSC?by tomp 10y agoCouldn't you switch on timeout using some kind of CPU counter, e.g. RDTSC?pcwalton 10y agoThen you're polling the system clock all the time, which is a large unnecessary throughput loss.tomp 10y agoBut that's just one instruction, highly paralelisable (I assume), as opposed to going through the kernel... Anyways, I haven't measured it, it's just an idea I had!