Robert Love wrote:
> OK, sure, but why specify a power-of-two HZ? There is absolutely no
> reason to, at least on x86.
Totally agree. However, I wasn't restricting it to powers of two. You
just happened to have mentioned 512 (wrt. RedHat).
> Want 512? 500 will do just as well and has the benefit of (a) being a
> multiple of the previous HZ and (b) evenly dividing into our concept of
> time.
512 ~= 500. 150 !~= 100. Would someone want to use 150? Maybe...
Anyway, it's no big deal if you prefer to leave your patch as-is.
However, if you do, then you need to at least add a comment to the code
and modify the Configure.help to make it clear that only integer
multiples work properly. In fact, you could just make the HZ Config
value be a "speed-up ratio" which would make various bits of the patch
cleaner.
Neil
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