Re: microsecond-resolution-for-2.6

[Tyler <tyler@xxxxxxxx>]

prasanna wakhare a écrit :
> Hi,
>  Is anybody knowing if there is microsecond resolution
> patch for 2.6 kernel. 
> As it was there for 2.2.13 by KURT linux people. 
> I think such a patch is also needed for 2.6 kernel
> even though its granularity is 1ms , what if someone
> want to expire the timer in few microseconds.
>
> Thanks
> Peasanna
Hi,

You can try to play with the HZ constant (defined in 
include/asm-'you_arch'/param.h. It's the frequency of the timer. By 
default, it's set to 1ms.
Several distributions (RedHat for example) modify this value in their 
"own kernel".


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