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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:14:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Faster kern.clockrate ?
Message-ID:  <199609061214.OAA00692@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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Hi,

for my dummynet stuff, I would like to have a finer clock granularity
than the default 10ms: 1ms would probably be ok.  There shouldn't
be so much overhead (after all, I started using FreeBSD on a 386/25,
and now I have a Pentium100!).

I have been thinking of changing the value of hz (assumed I can
find there it is initialized), but there are so many lines of code
with

	hz == 100
	100 / hz
	hz / 100

which makes me think that this is a bit dangerous. Otherwise, I thought
I could initialize the timer (timer0, I guess) so as to interrupt
faster, and then manage to call hardclock() every 10ms.

Still, has anyone already done something similar ? And, what are the
implications of this approach with other timers ?

	Thanks
	Luigi



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