Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 4 Mar 2000 09:38:25 +1300 | | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | | Subject | Re: IOAPIC and 8254 |
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On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:15:35PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> As long as the CPU can handle that many timer interrupts per > second that's OK. But you have to recompile all parts of userland > that depend on HZ.
I think most modern Intel CPUs could handle 1024 without any effort whatsoever -- but we need a way to export the HZ value to userland and a period of time for the userland applications to get fixed.
Perhaps 2.5.x stuff.
-cw
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