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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:03:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP:  HZ=1000 by default on i386
Message-ID:  <16795.51862.698490.378530@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <39210.1099557885@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <39210.1099557885@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
 > 
 > We increasingly need better granularity in our sleep/wakeup calls and
 > things like device polling and trafic shaping needs higher granularity
 > in particular.
 > 

Have you (or anybody else) looked at what dragonfly has done with
tvtohz() and clock aliasing?

The results presented at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/nanosleep
look very promising.   But I've never thought very hard about timers,
and I'm not sure I understand what they are doing.


Drew



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