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

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Jul 12 2005 - 10:18:05 EST


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.

Lee

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