Re: [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250

[John Hawkes]

From: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
...
> ok why not define the userspace HZ to
>
> #define HZ sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)

That did occur to me.  It obviously does get the correct value.  The downside
is that one of those crufty apps that thinks it is using "HZ" as a constant
will instead be invoking a more costly syscall.  Should we care about the
resulting performance impact?

I vote for Arjan's solution.

John Hawkes

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