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SubjectRe: Measured overhead of timer interrupts
On Mon, Jul 19 1999, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Should HZ=1024 be safe on x86?

Sure, why not. To my knowledge, there are no HZ == 100 dependencies
left in the kernel.

> If it's not completely safe, what do I need to fix and submit patches for
> so that we can be HZ=1024 on x86 for 2.4? :)

You could go look for drivers that count 100 jiffies as one second.
I'm pretty sure that it has been cleaned up, though

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