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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:04:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote:

> Actually we could do the same thing they did for errno, i.e.
> 
> #define jiffies get_jiffies()
> extern unsigned get_jiffies(void);

> No, not really.  HZ still defines the units of jiffies and most all the
> timing is still related to it.  Its just that interrupts are only "set
> up" when a "real" time event is due.

Great HZ always defines units of jiffies, but that is worthless if there
is not a ruleset that tells me a value to divide by to return it to a
specific quantity of time.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
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