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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
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    > IOW, nothing ever sees any "variable frequency", and there's never any
    > question about what the timer tick is: the timer tick is 2kHz as far as
    > everybody is concerned. It's just that the ticks sometimes come in
    > "bunches of 20".

    btw we can hide all of this a lot nicer from just about the entire
    kernel by reducing the usage of both HZ and jiffies in drivers/non
    platform code. That isn't hard; msleep() is a good step forward there
    already; the next step is a nicer api for add_timer/mod_timer that is
    both relative and in miliseconds; with those 2 the majority of code that
    has "knowledge" about this shrinks to near zero. Once we have that the
    actual implementation of this in the background matters a whole lot
    less.

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