Re: [PATCH 2/3] High-res-timers part 2 (x86 platform code) take 5.1

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 18:14:52 EST


On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, george anzinger wrote:
>
> This patch, in conjunction with the "core" high-res-timers
> patch implements high resolution timers on the i386
> platforms.

I really don't get the notion of partial ticks, and quite frankly, this
isn't going into my tree until some major distribution kicks me in the
head and explains to me why the hell we have partial ticks instead of just
making the ticks shorter.

                Linus

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