Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace

[Tim Schmielau]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Peter Williams wrote:

> In the 2.6 kernels internal timing and task statistics (for i386 
> systems) are now kept in milliseconds where they were previously in 
> 1/100ths of a second.  By converting these statistics to 1/100ths of a 
> second for export to user space an order of magnitude (i.e. a factor of 
> 10) loss of precision occurs.

No. The statistics are not a result of full bookkeeping, but simply
gained by periodically sampling the processor state. So they don't
have a precision of 1/1000th of a second anyways.


Tim
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