On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:13 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/CEC/mm-timer.mspx
Did anyone else find this strange: "The RTC is used in periodic mode to provide the system profiling interrupt on uni-processor systems and the clock interrupt on multi-processor systems." We just take NR_CPUS * HZ timer interrupts per second, what's the advantage of using the RTC? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/