Re: Measured overhead of timer interrupts

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:00:17 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 19 1999, Artur Skawina wrote:
> > what i would be interested in seeing is: the time it takes to
> > run a cpu bound app (eg raytracing am image) with HZ=100 and HZ=1024.
> > That would give a more realistic approximation of the overhead that
> > increasing HZ adds.
>
> Then do the bench, nobody prevents you from doing so.

Should HZ=1024 be safe on x86?

If it's not completely safe, what do I need to fix and submit patches for
so that we can be HZ=1024 on x86 for 2.4? :)

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