Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 07:30:06 EST


> 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.
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