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

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Wed Jul 13 2005 - 16:41:05 EST




--On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 17:24:41 -0400 Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:16 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>> Both can be detected from you .config and we could see HZ as needed
>> there and everyone else could avoid this surely?
>
> Does anyone object to setting HZ at boot? I suspect nothing else will
> make everyone happy.

Having the option is good ... the same arguments about creating a sensible
default still applies though (whatever that is). Creating yet more frigging
tunables for users to manage is not really a good way out ...

M.

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