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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Gumstix arm pxa
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Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Periodic ticks are the old ways of handling timer in operating systems.
> The higher the period, the higher the overhead. However, Xenomai
> proposes you an aperiodic mode, which is the default.

I mean the higher the frequency, the higher the overhead.

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					    Gilles.