Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 23:04:28 EST


On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote:

> Actually we could do the same thing they did for errno, i.e.
>
> #define jiffies get_jiffies()
> extern unsigned get_jiffies(void);

> No, not really. HZ still defines the units of jiffies and most all the
> timing is still related to it. Its just that interrupts are only "set
> up" when a "real" time event is due.

Great HZ always defines units of jiffies, but that is worthless if there
is not a ruleset that tells me a value to divide by to return it to a
specific quantity of time.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
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