Re: No 100 HZ timer !

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:10:28PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Timers more precise than 100HZ aren't probably needed - as MIN_RTO is 0.2s
> and MIN_DELACK is 0.04s, TCP would hardly benefit from them.

On networking bandwidth shaping and traffic control generally need higher precision 
timers.
There are also people who don't like the minimum 10ms delay for non-busy wait, it's
apparently a problem for some apps.

-Andi
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