Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 May 2005 17:55:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | christoph <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt. |
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On Mon, 16 May 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:45 -0700, christoph wrote: > > Make the timer frequency selectable. The timer interrupt may cause bus > > and memory contention in large NUMA systems since the interrupt occurs > > on each processor HZ times per second. > > Isn't there already a patch in the -ac kernel that allows HZ to be > selected at runtime?
Runtime? That seems to be a bad idea. It would be better to rewrite the timer subsystem to be able to work tickless.
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