-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:17:41AM +0530, Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli wrote: > On 7/18/07, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi >> > I am working on a project where I need to add some >> > functionality to kernel interrupt handlers. Due to >> > this extra processing my code runs quite slowly. Is >> > there any way to slow down timer inetrrupts since I >> > wasnt to check the effect of that on the execution >> > time of my code. I am using kernel v2.6 >> > >> perhaps you should manually define HZ variable, decreasing it means >> lowering ticks per second. Trace how the related CONFIG_ value is taken >> from Kconfig and applied to kernel source (probably you need to grep). > > > IIRC, I think there were issues with using values for HZ other than 100, > 250 > & 1000. Can we use any value for HZ now? I guess so, in commit 40fcfc87222e2e8af6379ec366f0cb2a411570cd Alan Cox added the 300 Hz option. It looks like you can add an option below 100 in a similar way. Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGnnoH/PlVHJtIto0RAvMEAJ9Hl4BZhcXbZ/90yHIefu/KJawFcwCeMdXP GJdGHRgGYPoD4IuhjvbcZ34= =l4BG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
