Hi, The restriction is architecture dependent. One restriction which I know is 19 is the lowest integer that can be set to HZ for the clock in X86 arch. I think Recompiling the whole kernel, modules has to be done to work with new HZ.I am not sure of configuring hardware timer counter. Regards, Nirranjan.K ----- Original Message ----- From: "nazim khan" <naz_taurus@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: maillist.kernelnewbies Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:09 PM Subject: Tick timer interrupt time. > Hi, > > Is there any restriction in linux kernel that timer > should always run at 10ms. > I see HZ hardcoded to 100 (100 ticks per seconds > which means 1 tick is 10 ms). > > If I have to change it to some other value (5ms or > 20ms) what all I have to take care aparty from > configuring hardware timer counter. > > - TIA > Taurus > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage > http://sports.yahoo.com/ > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
