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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt.
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: christoph <christoph@scalex86.org>
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On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:45 -0700, christoph wrote:
> 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.

Isn't there already a patch in the -ac kernel that allows HZ to be
selected at runtime?

Lee