Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:46:35 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > The APIC on modern systems has decent timers. There may also be ACPI timers > > we can use on ACPI capable systems. > > In what units do they meassure time? It would be nice if > they were garanteed to match the TSC frequency or some > other of the units already being used.
It really doesn't matter providing the resolution is decent. Conversion between formats of time is a maths operation, and we can handle those 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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