[PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
Make the timer frequency selectable. The timer interrupt may cause bus and memory contention in large NUMA systems since the interrupt occurs on each processor HZ times per second. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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#include <linux/config.h>
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#ifndef _ASMi386_PARAM_H
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#define _ASMi386_PARAM_H
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#ifdef __KERNEL__
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# define HZ 1000 /* Internal kernel timer frequency */
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# define HZ CONFIG_HZ /* Internal kernel timer frequency */
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# define USER_HZ 100 /* .. some user interfaces are in "ticks" */
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# define CLOCKS_PER_SEC (USER_HZ) /* like times() */
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#endif
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