Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000) | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:18:48 +0100 |
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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.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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