[clug] Any Timers Faster than 10ms?

[Carter, Michael]

For those who are intereseted - the following turned out to be a good source of interrupts:

http://www.stillhq.com/pdfdb/000522/data.pdf


The module is here:
http://www.oberle.org/apic_timer.html

> 
> Your only hope IMHO is to write a kernel module that has an interrupt
> handler, as you say, and find a good source of interrupts. I think 100
> Hz is a pretty standard frequency on PCs although you might find
> something faster in the hardware. Kernel timers give you the 
> accuracy of
> whatever the underlying hardware is, which from memory is 100Hz, but
> don't guarantee that you get executed as the first tasklet in 
> the timer
> queue. If you can handle a few jobs sometimes running before you then
> this would be OK, but still the resolution is 10 ms.

> 
> Have fun,
> Darren