Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:18:42 -0400 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ? |
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:57:09PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > 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.
Only from the perspective of time displayed to a user... :-)
Of course, that may be one of the only factors...
mark
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