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

Lee Revell
2005-07-14T14:20:57Z

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 11:24 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>>> "My expectation is if we want to beat the competition, we'll want
> >>>> the ability to go *under* 100Hz."
> >>>
> >>> What does Windows do here?
> >>
> >> windows xp base rate is 100Hz... but multimedia apps can ask for almost
> >
> > 83Hz
>
> Well, Windoes 98 (vmmon) shows very different ones:

Wow. Windows has been doing this since *98*?

So that's what Paul meant by "the stupidity of a fixed HZ, which is so
early '90s that its embarrassing".

Lee