Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Measured overhead of timer interrupts | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:01:57 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Summary: Single 300MHz Pentium II on 440LX chipset. > Average timer interrupt overhead at 100Hz: 0.14225% > Average cycles per timer interrupt: 41240.6 > Average time per timer interrupt: 137.47 > > Extrapolating to 1024Hz, expect 1.4566% time to go servicing the timer > interrupts.
Your extrapolation is broken. Try running a 1024Hz kernel. Timer work does not accrue at 10.24 times the rate as the clock increases
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