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> The forthcoming kernel will be introducing a rather visible (and |
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> potentially important) change. Firstly, it will provide an option to |
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> select the default timer frequency. Secondly, the default frequency |
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> will now be 250HZ. For the record, the value used to be 100HZ and was |
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> rather drastically changed to 1000HZ for 2.6. It will now be possible |
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> to choose a HZ value of either 100, 250 or 1000. |
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Although a non-issue to servers(?), |
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the change affects sleep call latencies. |
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<http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~ed/misc/nanosleep/> |
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a linux 2.6 @ 100hz is the same as netbsd @ 100hz |
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--ed |
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Eduardo Tongson |
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