From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Barton-Davis Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:31:14 +0000 Subject: Re: HZ > 100 overhead Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org >> >Wouldn't you say that an HZ > 100 kernel is the cleanest solution? >> >> its the cleanest, but not the best. HZ = 1000 adds about 8% overhead >> to IRQ processing *all the time*. > >Are you *sure* about this? I seem to remember there was some debate >about that figure on linux-kernel. Ed Hall measured it, and my overall impression of Ed is that I'd trust him to do this correctly. what did the l-k folks think ?