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Subject: Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible
To: kasperd@daimi.au.dk (Kasper Dupont)
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:30:06 +0100 (BST)
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> I'd like to see oneshot timer interrupts as a compile time
> option on any architecture that is capable of doing it. But of
> course it is not easy.
> 
> Have I missed something somewhere?

The APIC on modern systems has decent timers. There may also be ACPI timers
we can use on ACPI capable systems.
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