Re: [PATCH 1/6] new timeofday core subsystem for -mm (v.B3)

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:05 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> With -mm you can now choose the HZ value, so that's not really the 
> problem anymore. A lot of archs even never changed to a higher HZ
> value. 

That does not solve anything, going back to HZ=100 is a big user-visible
regression because the resolution of sleep() (and poll, etc) is now 10ms
rather than 1ms.  Many apps have RT constraints between 1ms and 10ms.

Lee


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