Re: [rtl] substitute to jiffies

["Jochen Küpper" <jochen@pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

Kulwinder Atwal writes:
 > "Wayne E. Van Loon Sr." wrote:
 > 
 > > In my opinion, a better
 > > description of the jiffy is that the jiffy is the time of one "time slice"
 > > for the scheduler.
 > 
 > Yes, I was trying to be brief.  The setting of the constant HZ (number
 > of jiffies per second) will affect the result.  The most common default
 > setting for HZ is 100 which translates into 10 milliseconds.  But many
 > using RTL have set HZ to 1000 to get more responsiveness from
 > Linux.

The "most common default" actually depends on the architecture. Look
into asm-alpha/param.h, for example.
Then that isn't a RT-Linux arch (yet :-).

Jochen
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