Re: IOAPIC and 8254

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 15:46:41 EST

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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> said:

[...]

> Alternatively we could just stop exporting timing information to userland in
> units of HZ.

I vote for this. Userland has no business with HZ; and you could very well
envision a ssytem where HZ changes (OS sees high CPU bound load ==> HZ goes
up; load gets more interactive ==> HZ goes down; CPU speeding up/down
(Crusoe)) or even has no real global meaning anymore ("HZ" depends on the
specific use)

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