Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

From: Lee Revell
Date: Wed Aug 17 2005 - 18:17:48 EST


On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 21:41 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> I guess now I realized how you (and Nish)
> assume I could use it: is it that I
> should set CONFIG_HZ to the value I
> need at compile-time, and just remove
> all the timer reprogramming from the
> driver in a hope the dynamic-tick patch
> will slow it down itself when necessary?

The current implementations don't allow HZ to go higher than CONFIG_HZ
but that's the next logical step.

Lee

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