Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

Alan Cox
2002-07-11T12:04:51Z

> I'd like to see oneshot timer interrupts as a compile time
> option on any architecture that is capable of doing it. But of
> course it is not easy.
>
> Have I missed something somewhere?

The APIC on modern systems has decent timers. There may also be ACPI timers
we can use on ACPI capable systems.