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

From: Lee Revell
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 15:53:06 EST


On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:45 -0700, christoph wrote:
> Make the timer frequency selectable. The timer interrupt may cause bus
> and memory contention in large NUMA systems since the interrupt occurs
> on each processor HZ times per second.

Isn't there already a patch in the -ac kernel that allows HZ to be
selected at runtime?

Lee

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