From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:35:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:35:31 -0400 Received: from daimi.au.dk ([130.225.16.1]:64884 "EHLO daimi.au.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:35:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2D8A35.30F460F3@daimi.au.dk> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:37:57 +0200 From: Kasper Dupont Organization: daimi.au.dk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Lincoln Dale , Linux Subject: Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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. 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. -- Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid på usenet. For sending spam use mailto:razor-report@daimi.au.dk