>> > I guess it depends on your agenda. An OS that has to be rebooted every
>> > 490 days isnt a very good embedded system large or small. "Please remember
>> > to reboot your building airconditioning control system about next august" ;)
>> >
>> > View from on high noted, want me to take it off the list ?
>>
>> Some people are running kernel at a higher HZ which brings them much closer
>> to the danger zone.
> good point. Especially soft-RT-people like the choice of HZ=1000,
> millisec-accuracy scheduling and timers. I remember someone even used
> 10000, to get 100 usec accuracy timers. Even a low-end PC can take HZ=10k.
> That one wraps jiffies every 4 days!
There is only one problem with it: glibc doesn't know about it and returns
the wrong value to posix conformant programs trying to get it with sysconf().
Solution: add a readonly sysctl for HZ.
diff -u -r1.60 include/linux/sysctl.h
--- include/linux/sysctl.h 1998/05/07 20:48:57 1.60
+++ include/linux/sysctl.h 1998/07/27 14:06:40
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@
KERN_PPC_HTABRECLAIM, /* turn htab reclaimation on/off on PPC */
KERN_PPC_ZEROPAGED, /* turn idle page zeroing on/off on PPC */
KERN_MODPROBE,
- KERN_SG_BIG_BUFF
+ KERN_SG_BIG_BUFF,
+ KERN_HZ /* int: Readonly: export HZ to userspace */
};
diff -u -r1.45 kernel/sysctl.c
--- kernel/sysctl.c 1998/06/16 04:38:13 1.45
+++ kernel/sysctl.c 1998/07/27 14:06:57
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
extern unsigned long htab_reclaim_on, zero_paged_on;
#endif
+int hzrate = HZ; /* exported readonly */
+
extern int pgt_cache_water[];
static int parse_table(int *, int, void *, size_t *, void *, size_t,
@@ -184,6 +186,8 @@
{KERN_SG_BIG_BUFF, "sg-big-buff", &sg_big_buff, sizeof (int),
0444, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
#endif
+ {KERN_HZ, "clock-rate", &hzrate, sizeof(int), 0444, NULL,
+ &proc_dointvec},
{0}
};
-Andi
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