[PATCH] ppc32: add CONFIG_HZ
Dan Malek
dan at embeddededge.com
Sun Aug 28 10:48:04 EST 2005
On Aug 27, 2005, at 1:04 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> What's the reason for clock jitter? Is it because most timeouts are
> set
> to multiples of 100, or some other reason?
Yes, the application interfaces are all defined as 100 Hz (10 mSec).
If the POSIX timer implementation is done properly, it should be
possible to determine the timer parameters to eliminate this, but
I doubt any applications do this. They all assume 10 mSec :-)
-- Dan
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