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

From: Alok Kataria
Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 18:19:57 EST



On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 13:34 -0700, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >> 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.
>
Hi Alan,

I guess you are talking about the tick_divider patch ?
And that's still same as reducing the HZ value only that it can be done
dynamically (boot time), right ?

Thanks,
Alok

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