HR timers on PowerPC 83xx

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Sat Apr 26 01:59:32 EST 2008


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?

    It is independent from HRT and selects the mode where the idle process 
stops timer HZ interrupts from occuring until it's scheduled off CPU.

WBR, Sergei




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