Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

Alan Cox
2002-07-11T15:20:52Z

> > The APIC on modern systems has decent timers. There may also be ACPI timers
> > we can use on ACPI capable systems.
>
> In what units do they meassure time? It would be nice if
> they were garanteed to match the TSC frequency or some
> other of the units already being used.

It really doesn't matter providing the resolution is decent. Conversion
between formats of time is a maths operation, and we can handle those 8)