Re: [PATCH] dynamic tick patch

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 18:34:52 EST


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:59 -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
> I don't think you will ever get good time if you EVER reprogramm the PIT.

Why not ? If you have a continous time source, which keeps track of
"ticks" regardless the CPU state, why should PIT reprogramming be evil ?

tglx


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