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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0903121541410.8068@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:45:46 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: System tick rate


On Thursday 2009-03-12 15:21, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:38:19 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> 
>> is there an "official" way of obtaining the current tick rate when 
>> CONFIG_NO_HZ? 
>
>what does "current tick rate" mean for you in a no-hz situation ?
>is it the HZ value (which is supposed to be invisible from userspace,
>so good luck) or the wakeup count ?

Hm, I guess what I want is the number of timer interrupts which
occurred within the observation period that called the scheduler
code. (So that excludes RTC on usual x86en.)
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