Re: System tick rate

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 10:46:05 EST



On Thursday 2009-03-12 15:21, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:38:19 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>> is there an "official" way of obtaining the current tick rate when
>> CONFIG_NO_HZ?
>
>what does "current tick rate" mean for you in a no-hz situation ?
>is it the HZ value (which is supposed to be invisible from userspace,
>so good luck) or the wakeup count ?

Hm, I guess what I want is the number of timer interrupts which
occurred within the observation period that called the scheduler
code. (So that excludes RTC on usual x86en.)
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