Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible | Date | Fri, 12 Jul 2002 02:24:16 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Uh, HZ is not scheduler calls per second. > > Neither exactly is it interrupts per second, but _timer_ interrupts per > second. It is the frequency of the timer interrupt.
Its not exactly that either. Its 'rate at which jiffies is incremented'. The distinction is not pedantic its rather critical when you go to a variable timer tick...
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