HR timers on PowerPC 83xx

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Sat Apr 26 00:50:51 EST 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 18:18 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> > Trying to understand what is needed to make nanosleep() and friends to
> > have better resolution than HZ on my 83xx CPU. Is this possible
> > and what CONFIG options do I need to enable? Kernel is 2.6.25
> 
>     Should be possible with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y.

What about NO_HZ? Does that setting change anything?

> 
> WBR, Sergei
> 



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