Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Fri Jul 08 2005 - 17:12:36 EST


On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:59:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:28:47AM -0700, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ^^^^^^

> It's been over two weeks and nobody has complained about anything.

Two weeks isn't that long IMO (I only just noticed myself).

> Because 1000 is too high.

How so? There have been comparatively few complaints about this since
we switched quite some time ago.

Strictly speaking I agree 1000 might be too high --- but we've had it
for so long now, almost all over 2.5.x (I think?) and all of 2.6.x.
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