Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc32: add CONFIG_HZ

From: Grant Likely <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:04:22 -0600

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:07:01PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> 
> On Aug 26, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> >Yes, it was.  With 2.6.13 and on i386 (and other arches that actually
> >make use of the question) it can be any of 100, 250 or 1000.
> 
> Well, 250 just seems wrong as I mentioned in a previous message.
> It will function, but an application is going to see lots of clock 
> jitter
> unless you work in multiples of 100.  My choices would be 100, 200,
> 500, or 1000.
What's the reason for clock jitter?  Is it because most timeouts are set
to multiples of 100, or some other reason?

Thanks,
g.