Re: 2.4.23 can run with HZ==0!

[Rob Love]

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 07:52, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:

> Can you give me an example?

Sure, as this has already been done:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/variable-HZ/v2.4/

As you see, that has a ton of fixups, primarily to ensure that
user-space is always exported jiffies in terms of USER_HZ==100.

> The uptime will be rather limited with 32 bits jiffies ;-) but I can live with that.

There is a patch at that same place that adds 64-bit jiffies.

	Rob Love


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