Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 11 Jul 2002 17:55:20 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 17:50, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Stevie O wrote: > > Why must HZ be the same as 'interrupts per second'? > > s/interrupts/scheduler calls/
Uh, HZ is not scheduler calls per second.
Neither exactly is it interrupts per second, but _timer_ interrupts per second. It is the frequency of the timer interrupt.
> But what exactly does this question mean to be? I don't fully understand. > We define HZ to have an interval for the calls of the scheduler. That's > why it is the number of scheduler calls per second, because that's what it > was invented to be.
No no no...
Robert Love
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