Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:14:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] High-res-timers part 2 (x86 platform code) take 5.1 |
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, george anzinger wrote: > > This patch, in conjunction with the "core" high-res-timers > patch implements high resolution timers on the i386 > platforms.
I really don't get the notion of partial ticks, and quite frankly, this isn't going into my tree until some major distribution kicks me in the head and explains to me why the hell we have partial ticks instead of just making the ticks shorter.
Linus
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