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

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 05:24:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> HOWEVER. I bet that somebody who really really cares (hint hint) could
> easily make HZ be 1000, and then dynamically tweak the divisor at bootup
> to be either 1000, 250, or 100, and then increment "jiffies" by 1, 4 or
> 10.

Wouldn't this be better suited to a VST like implementation, but
instead of using VST to dynamically adjust the timer divisor, it
operates in a "fixed" mode?

(I'm arguing this way because ARM has VST merged already, and all
there are no changes required to the core kernel code to achieve
this.)

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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