Re: dynamic-hz

Con Kolivas
2004-12-14T22:46:30Z

Lee Revell writes:

> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:36 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
>> The performance benefit, if any, is often lost in noise during
>> benchmarks and when there, is less than 1%.
>
> I have measured 2.1-2.3% residency for the timer ISR on my 600Mhz VIA
> C3. And this is a desktop - you have many many embedded systems that
> are slower. For these systems the difference is very real.

Could you explain residency and it's relevance to throughput please? I've
not heard this term before.

Cheers,
Con