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From: Mark Salisbury <mbs@mc.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: No 100 HZ timer !
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:42:33 -0400
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
> .... Also generally the kernel has quite a lot of timers. 

are these generaly of the long interval, failure timeout type?
i.e. 5 second device timeouts that are killed before they get executed because
the device didn't timeout?  if so, they have no effect on the number of timer
interrupts because they generally never get hit.  and when they do, you have to
pay the price anyway.

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