[Lguest] timer frequency

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Tue Mar 4 20:06:46 EST 2008


On Tuesday 04 March 2008 18:26:08 Varun Deshpande wrote:
> hi
> i am new to this
> can any one plz tell me for lguest why
> we compile kernel with timer frequency 100hz.
> thanks

Hi Varun,

   Before we had tickless kernels, the guest would wake up every timer tick, 
so the lower that number, the better.  These days it's not so important.

Hope that helps!
Rusty.



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