Re: [RFC] [PATCH] allow low HZ values?

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Oct 11 2010 - 18:33:50 EST


On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 13:11 -0700, Tim Pepper wrote:
> > I'm not necessarily wanting to open up the age old question of "what is
> > a good HZ", but we were doing some testing on timer tick overheads for
> > HPC applications and this came up...
>
> Note that this is also very useful when working on CPU prototypes
> implemented in FPGAs and running at something like 12Mhz :-)

/me hands benh 0.5$ for a FPGA upgrade
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