Re: dynamic-hz

[Con Kolivas]

Lee Revell writes:

> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:36 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > The performance benefit, if any, is often lost in noise during 
> > benchmarks and when there, is less than 1%.
>
> I have measured 2.1-2.3% residency for the timer ISR on my 600Mhz VIA
> C3.  And this is a desktop - you have many many embedded systems that
> are slower.  For these systems the difference is very real.

Could you explain residency and it's relevance to throughput please? I've 
not heard this term before.

Cheers,
Con

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