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

Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-12T15:22:57Z

--Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote (on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:10:13 -0400):

> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:08 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> Well, looking forward, you'll have sub-HZ timers, so none of this will
>> matter. Actually, looking at the above, 150 seems perfectly reasonable
>> to me, but 300 seems to be close enough. I'll run some numbers on both.
>>
>> > From your above email, I'm more convinced than ever that lowering HZ is
>> the right thing to do ...
>
> Which we can live with of course, I just wanted to make sure people were
> aware of the multimedia side of the argument.

OK, thanks. and I'm full of shit about 150, too early in the morning.
300 is the lowest common multiple of 50 and 60.

M.