Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Gross <> | Subject | Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:16:02 -0800 |
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On Monday 15 March 2004 00:17, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > What for? It should be invisible to userspace... > > It's not invisible. select/poll/epoll/setitimer round their time > argument according to HZ, and programs which do smooth (i.e. low > _jitter_) animation of the kind where the eye is sensitive to the > jitter need to track it and correct for it. >
Wouldn't it be better to just use high res timers and associated posix interfaces or low jitter applications?
--mgross
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