Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Mar 2000 18:34:58 +0100 | From | Artur Skawina <> | Subject | Re: IOAPIC and 8254 |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > > > there is the (valid) argument that raw unscaled values are very > > useful for debugging. > > Fine. So export HZ and raw data.
raw values + units. (no need for a universal HZ)
> It has also been suggested that we scale the values which we output to > userspace - not to seconds but to the original value of HZ which we used to use > on that architecture. This would appear to give us the worst of both worlds.
but it lets you raise HZ while waiting for the "proper" solution to be implemented without hacking a lot of apps.
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