Re: [-rt] time-related problems with CPU frequency scaling

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 08:11 +0200, Wolfgang Hoffmann wrote:
> So I misunderstood preempt_max_latency. I thought it to be absolute
> time, but it actually is codepath cycles, translated to microseconds
> using the current CPU frequency. Thanks for clarifying.  

They are one and the same.  At 800Mhz the same code patch causes twice
the latency.

Lee

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