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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:20:06 +0100
From:      Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_current@webcom.it>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        bde@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Use local APIC timer to drive kernel clocks
Message-ID:  <20050115122005.GA70274@webcom.it>
In-Reply-To: <200501141546.31386.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200501141546.31386.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:46:31PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>   IPIs per second.  Instead, I went with a simpler algorithm suggested by phk
>   that lets me run the timer at hz and guarantees that statclock() will be
>   called stathz times per second, just not evenly spaced.  The same is true

I guess this assumes hz > stathz? If that's true and this is committed, you
should send a big headsup, as people may still have HZ=100 (I know that's not
default, but habits are hard to change).

Bye,
	Andrea

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