tree c9279c1b74cce81a9dbaf1e7fd038cd55caf26f2
parent 799d19f6ec5ca2102c61122f5219a17f1c4e961a
author Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> 1119510505 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> 1119545110 -0700

[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>