Re: Scheduler degradation since 2.5.66

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 21:09:58 EST


George Anzinger wrote:
> Try running the test with a requested sleep time of something less than
> 0.999849 ms. All this is for the x86 which is using this time to do the
> best it can with the PIT which can only get this close to 1 ms ticks. You
> can even vary this number to see exactly where the round up actually
> happens. Ah, life in the nano world :)

Would it be better to program the PIT for lowest frequency that's >= 1.0ms.

-- Jamie
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