Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

[Chris Friesen]

Lee Revell wrote:

> Tickless + sub HZ timers is a win for everyone, the multimedia people
> get better latency, and the laptop people get to run longer.

IIRC it's not a win for many systems.  Throughput goes down due to timer 
manipulation overhead.

Chris
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