Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965056AbVIMTQE (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:16:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965155AbVIMTQE (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:16:04 -0400 Received: from 216-54-166-16.gen.twtelecom.net ([216.54.166.16]:7134 "EHLO mx1.compro.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965056AbVIMTQC (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:16:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4327256E.2000702@compro.net> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:15:58 -0400 From: Mark Hounschell Reply-To: markh@compro.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: HZ question References: <4326CAB3.6020109@compro.net> <4326DB8A.7040109@compro.net> <4326EAD7.50004@compro.net> <1126632856.3455.45.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1126632856.3455.45.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.0.3.165339, Antispam-Engine: 2.1.0.0, Antispam-Data: 2005.9.13.18 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 833 Lines: 24 john stultz wrote: > > But you don't really want to know HZ, you want to know timer resolution. > That's a reasonable request and I believe the posix-timers > clock_getres() interface might provide what you need. Although I'd defer > to George (CC'ed) since he's more of an expert on those interfaces. > > You might also want to check out his HRT patches. > > thanks > -john Thanks John that does in fact seem to do what I needed. It gives me enough info that I can tell the HZ of the running kernel. HaHa... I'm familiar with the HRT stuff as it was on the 2.4 kernel. Thanks Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/