Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:10:55 +0200


On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 08:23:11AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
>
> > Making it a sysctl is not good as lots of constants would become
> > variables. On the other hand, changing HZ and just re-compiling
> > the kernel should be sufficient.
>
> But then there must be a sysctl to obtain the currently selected
> value. So far, the libc has to guess and uses a constant value.

It's not possible to run all MIPS machines that are support rsp. to be
supported using the same value for HZ, so we'll somewhen to make it
variable anyway.

Ralf

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