Re: [PATCH] HZ change for ix86

Kurt Garloff (K.Garloff@ping.de)
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:29:08 +0100

On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 09:25:25PM -0800, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> I don't know anything about it (and my box is an Alpha for which HZ is
> 1024), but, one ignorant proposal: would it perhaps be worthwhile to have
> the HZ value higher for faster (x86) systems based on the target picked in
> make config? Say, your 400 for Pentium+ and 100 for 486 or lower..?

Yes, I think this would be a good idea.
No time to code it into the CONFIG files, right now, though ...
If Linus tells me: "Hey, do it, it will be integrated then!" I will have
time, of course. 

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Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>                           [Dortmund, FRG]  
Plasma physics, high perf. computing              [Linux-ix86,-axp, DUX]
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