Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Lee Revell
2005-07-13T20:28:57Z

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:32 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 7/13/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > So we should aim for a HZ value that makes it easy to convert to and from
> > > the standard user-space interface formats. 100Hz, 250Hz and 1000Hz are all
> > > good values for that reason. 864 is not.
> >
> > How about 500? This might be good enough to solve the MIDI problem.
> >
>
> I would expect number of laptop users significatly outnumber ones
> driving MIDI so as a default entry 250 makes more sense IMHO.
>

Alan tested it and said that 250HZ does not save much power anyway.

Lee