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

[Bill Davidsen]

Lee Revell wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  
>
> > YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do".
> >
> > MY argument is that this is a case of give and take. 
> >    
>
> I wouldn't say that.  I do agree with you that HZ=1000 for everyone is
> problematic, I just feel that a reasonable compromise is CONFIG_HZ with
> the default left at 1000.

I would just say that changing something like this now is probably not a 
great idea, while allowing a config option for 100/250/1000 and maybe 
even 2000 won't make everyone happy, but seems to allow everyone to make 
themselves happy.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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