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

[Randy Dunlap]

Lee Revell said:
> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:30 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote:
>> | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default
>> | alone.  Why should everyone have to bear the cost?
>>
>> indeed, why should everyone have to have 1000 timer interrupts per
>> second?
>
> So why waste everyone's time with CONFIG_HZ when there are working
> dynamic tick solutions out there?  It's just bad release engineering.

hey, that seems to expect some top-level release (or project)
management.  ;)

anyway, I was just trying to point out more than one side to this,
and you have now done the same.  thanks.

-- 
~Randy

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