Re: [PATCH] x86: Reduce the default HZ value

[Alan Cox]

> >> Given your use case, what you really need to do is get Red Hat,
> >> Novell, et al. on the phone and ask them to ship kernels with HZ=100,
> >> because the distributions do their own thing anyway.

As a side note Red Hat ships runtime configurable tick behaviour in RHEL
these days. HZ is fixed but the ticks can be bunched up. That was done as
a quick fix to keep stuff portable but its a lot more sensible than
randomly messing with the HZ value and its not much code either.

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