[PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
authorChristoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:08:25 +0000 (00:08 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:45:10 +0000 (09:45 -0700)
commit59121003721a8fad11ee72e646fd9d3076b5679c
treec9279c1b74cce81a9dbaf1e7fd038cd55caf26f2
parent799d19f6ec5ca2102c61122f5219a17f1c4e961a
[PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Make the timer frequency selectable. The timer interrupt may cause bus
and memory contention in large NUMA systems since the interrupt occurs
on each processor HZ times per second.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/Kconfig
arch/x86_64/Kconfig
include/asm-i386/param.h
include/asm-x86_64/param.h
kernel/Kconfig.hz [new file with mode: 0644]