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

[David Lang]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> How serious is the 1/HZ = sane problem, and more to the point how many 
> programs get the HZ value with a system call as opposed to including a header 
> or building it in? I know some of my older programs use header files, that 
> was part of the planning for the future even before 2.5 started. At the time 
> I didn't expect to have to use the system call.

in binary 1/100 or 1/1000 are not sane values to start with so I don't 
think that that this is likly to be that critical (remembering that the 
kernel doesn't do floating point math)

David Lang

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