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SubjectRe: IOAPIC and 8254
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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