On Sunday 10 March 2002 03.01, Paul Davis wrote: [...] > >I don't think a new clock would make much sense. You could just > > run the kernel with a higher clock resolution I think. > > Well, the overhead of the system timer interrupt is ever-present.
Except that, thanks to this legacy crap in PC chipsets, it costs a great deal more when you have to reprogram the timer frequently... (SMP systems should be fine, though - although I don't know if Linux can use those timers right now.) //David .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | | A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia | `----------------------> http://www.linuxaudiodev.com/maia -' .- David Olofson -------------------------------------------. | Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter | `-------------------------------------> http://olofson.net -'
