RE: [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:47 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Ar Mer, 2006-06-28 am 10:43 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> > > I would hope not; it's a pretty big regression for the telco space
> > > (which really wants 1 or 2 msec delays) so I hope/assume all the
> > > enterprise distributions (which ia64 specially cares about) stick to the
> > > old 1024 value...
> > 
> > 250 is also really bad for multimedia people. They would much rather
> > have 300 than 250 as it divides nicely by 50 and by 60 for frame rates.
> 
> yup I know; I proposed that back when this was discussed but lost that
> argument ;(

Maybe try again? I think we were not aware of that issue when the patch 
was submitted. And we had trouble following arguments in the flood of 
messages that followed.

You could also simply add a HZ choice of 300.

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