Re: [PATCH] x86: Reduce the default HZ value
From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 13:30:10 EST
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Therefore, decreasing the HZ value to say 50, we'd get a minimum
> involuntary preemption granularity of 20ms, something on the high end of
> barely usable.
But the schedule is activated when a process is being woken up. The main
use is for load balancing.
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