>> I have a program that wants to be woken up at 240Hz.  Since I'm
>> doing this on a SPARC, whose clock interrupts at only 100Hz, I
>> connected a loopback connector to one of the serial lines, set it to
>> 2400bps, and then started dumping characters at it.  Of course, they
>> came back at 240Hz, just as I wanted.

> I'm surprized that works.  Are you sure you're getting 240Hz wakeups?

At the time I wrote the original message, I hadn't yet gotten the
kernel rebuilt and tested; I wasn't getting any wakeups.  (Note my
wording: "[the characters[ came back at 240Hz", not "I got 240Hz
wakeups".)

Now, with the change I proposed, I am getting wakeups.  They are
happening significantly more often than 100Hz; I can tell that much
just by seat-of-the-pants feel.  I haven't instrumented the program
enough to get even approximate frequency figures, but it's in the right
ballpark.

> Anyway, it might be more profitable in the long run to increase the
> kernel clockrate.

I would if I knew how.  As I understand it, not all hardware can do
this, and I have no idea whether mine can - nor, if it can, how to make
it do so.

And someday I really must implement AF_TIMER sockets....

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