Re: Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000)

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_kth.se)
Date: 12/13/03

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    Jean-Marc Valin <Jean-Marc.Valin@USherbrooke.ca> writes:

    > more sensitive at 1 kHz). Also, I have around 10% overhead on my
    > Pentium-M 1.6 GHz, so I guess it's not for everyone. Extrapolating from
    > there, I'd also say that at 100 kHz, it wouldn't do anything but handle
    > the interrupts, which is slightly annoying when you want to actually get
    > some work done :)

    I once forgot to acknowledge an interrupt in the handler for a PCI
    board. It ended up being called ~300k times per second. The system
    load was noticeable. 

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Måns Rullgård
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