RE: [Xen-users] How to raise HZ to 1000 properly?

To:	"Nate Carlson" <natecars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [Xen-users] How to raise HZ to 1000 properly?
From:	"Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:41:28 -0000
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> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Ian Pratt wrote:
> >> What's the right way to do this?
> >
> > To get the acuracy you need you'll need to adjust the parameter in 
> > xen/include/asm-x86/config.h too
> 
> Just curious, is there any disadvantage to doing this 
> (changing the timer to 1000hz)?

Not particularly -- the plan is to make it configurable on a per guest
basis, but since this can be done in a backward compatible fashion it
hasn't been a "must do" before 3.0.0.

Ian


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