title: Windows Sleep Microseconds for Low Latency Thread Communication
body: <p>Is there any way I could suspend the thread for 1-2 microseconds? (Note 1 microsecond = 1/1000 miliseond). I know this question has been asked but so far there is no good answer for this. Here is my situation why I need this:</p>
  
  <p>I have a server with several threads running to serve client's requests. Requests are sent by other thread through shared memory which occurs occasionally. However, once request is sent it needs to be processed ASAP. So, I need a fast way to notify one of the serving threads when request is queued in shared memory.</p>
  
  <p>Windows event object was used but it takes 6-7us from SetEvent() to WaitForSingleObject() return on my machine (tried to set process/thread priority but still not much improvement). I tried to use a busy loop to let the serving threads keep pooling the memory which lower the latency to 1-2us, which is good enough, but it burns the CPU while the requests are only sent like once per minutes. If I could insert a micro/nano second sleep into the loop I could at least get my CPU free while keep the latency low.</p>
  
  <p>I would be glad if anyone could suggest me another way to do the thread communication with latency lower than 2us. Thanks</p>