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    which kind of U/K accaounting are you referring to?

    are you referring to global changes in world time? are you referring to time
    used by a process?

    I think the reduction of clock interrupts by a factor of 10 would buy us some
    performance margin that could be traded for a slightly more complex handler.

    On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
    > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:19:28PM -0400, Mark Salisbury wrote:
    > > this is one of linux biggest weaknesses. the fixed interval timer is a
    > > throwback. it should be replaced with a variable interval timer with interrupts
    > > on demand for any system with a cpu sane/modern enough to have an on-chip
    > > interrupting decrementer. (i.e just about any modern chip)
    >
    > Just how would you do kernel/user CPU time accounting then ? It's currently done
    > on every timer tick, and doing it less often would make it useless.
    >
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    > -Andi
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