Hi,
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> This is not a problem at all. Just define HZ as:
>
> extern int system_hz;
> #define HZ system_hz
>
> After that all code will use variable HZ. Changing HZ on fly will be
> dangerous. However HZ can be made a boot time (LILO) parameter.
OK, that's probably a start. As the next step, I'd recommend that the
maintainers and their supporters try to replace the static HZ with
possibly-dynamic system_hz. The third step would be to have guys like Ingo
to tune system_hz to be really dynamic.
Cool idea, anyway.
Regards,
Thunder
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