One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others..
Santosh Shilimkar
santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Wed Jan 23 00:18:13 EST 2013
On Wednesday 23 January 2013 03:22 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org> [130122 11:02]:
>>
>> Correct, with HRT, we actually trigger the HZ-frequency timer tick
>> from an hrtimer (which expires based on the system time driven by
>> the clocksource). Thus even if there is a theoretical error between
>> the ideal HZ and what the hardware can do, that error will not
>> propagate forward.
>
> If there's no cumulative error, sounds like the way to go is to select
> HRT for ARM multiplatform builds and set the HZ to 100 then.
>
HIGH_RES_TIMERS are always enabled by default for OMAP as well as
multi-platform build.
Regards,
Santosh
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