Re: Confused about CLOCK_TICK_RATE

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
Timur Tabi writes: > Can someone explain CLOCK_TICK_RATE to me? It's defined in > arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h as such: > > #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1024000 /* Underlying HZ */ > > Every architecture defines this, but some use the better comment > "Underlying frequency of the HZ timer"

Re: Confused about CLOCK_TICK_RATE

2009-03-18 Thread Scott Wood
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:01:00PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > Can someone explain CLOCK_TICK_RATE to me? It's defined in > arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h as such: > > #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1024000 /* Underlying HZ */ > > Every architecture defines this, but some use the better comment

Confused about CLOCK_TICK_RATE

2009-03-12 Thread Timur Tabi
Can someone explain CLOCK_TICK_RATE to me? It's defined in arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h as such: #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1024000 /* Underlying HZ */ Every architecture defines this, but some use the better comment "Underlying frequency of the HZ timer". My question is: why is this a constan