Re: One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others..

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Wednesday 23 January 2013 03:22 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> [130122 11:02]:
> > Correct, with HRT, we actually trigger the HZ-frequency timer tick
> > from an hrtimer (which expires based on the system time driven by
> > the clocksource). Thus even if there is a theoretical error between
> > the ideal HZ and what the hardware can do, that error will not
> > propagate forward.
>
> If there's no cumulative error, sounds like the way to go is to select
> HRT for ARM multiplatform builds and set the HZ to 100 then.
HIGH_RES_TIMERS are always enabled by default for OMAP as well as
multi-platform build.

Regards,
Santosh
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