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Subject: Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible
To: kasperd@daimi.au.dk (Kasper Dupont)
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> > The APIC on modern systems has decent timers. There may also be ACPI timers
> > we can use on ACPI capable systems.
> 
> In what units do they meassure time? It would be nice if
> they were garanteed to match the TSC frequency or some
> other of the units already being used.

It really doesn't matter providing the resolution is decent. Conversion 
between formats of time is a maths operation, and we can handle those 8)
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