Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:51:39 +0100 | From | Artur Skawina <> | Subject | Re: IOAPIC and 8254 |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > > cw@f00f.org said: > > I think most modern Intel CPUs could handle 1024 without any effort > > whatsoever -- but we need a way to export the HZ value to userland and > > a period of time for the userland applications to get fixed.
> If we're going to do that, we {sh,c}ould start to export HZ to userspace right > now so that userspace can have some extra time to catch up.
yep.
> Alternatively we could just stop exporting timing information to userland in > units of HZ.
there is the (valid) argument that raw unscaled values are very useful for debugging.
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