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

Russell King
2005-07-15T08:45:00Z

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 05:24:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> HOWEVER. I bet that somebody who really really cares (hint hint) could
> easily make HZ be 1000, and then dynamically tweak the divisor at bootup
> to be either 1000, 250, or 100, and then increment "jiffies" by 1, 4 or
> 10.

Wouldn't this be better suited to a VST like implementation, but
instead of using VST to dynamically adjust the timer divisor, it
operates in a "fixed" mode?

(I'm arguing this way because ARM has VST merged already, and all
there are no changes required to the core kernel code to achieve
this.)

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core