Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ? | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 16 Apr 2002 20:57:09 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 20:49, David Mosberger wrote:
> But since it's popular, I did measure it quickly on a relatively > slow (old) Itanium box: with 100Hz, the kernel compile was about > 0.6% faster than with 1024Hz (2.4.18 UP kernel).
One question I have always had is why 1024 and not 1000 ?
Because that is what Alpha does? It seems to me there is no reason for a power-of-two timer value, and using 1024 vs 1000 just makes the math and rounding more difficult.
Robert Love
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