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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5]  July 10, 2002
Date: 10 Jul 2002 13:03:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1026331418.1244.82.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020710191824.GT1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi>

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 12:18, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:54:21AM -0700, you [Robert Love] wrote:
> > 
> > As of 2.5.25, we have HZ=1000 (on x86) and a scalable user-space
> > exported clock_t that remains at 100 HZ to keep user-space compatible. 
> > This is attributed to the Commander in Chief, Linus Torvalds.
> 
> But jiffies now wrap at 49.7 days, right? If so, did Tim Schmielau's jiffies
> wrap patches go in as well? ISTR they went in -dj.

George Anzinger's 64-bit jiffies are in 2.5.

Tim's code to better utilize them is in 2.5 I _think_.

> Didn't Red Hat change HZ to 1000 (or 1024) in Limbo as well? How did they
> handle that?

Yes, RedHat's current devel kernel is using HZ=1000.  I am not sure how
they handled it.  What we have in 2.5 now is correct.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-10 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-10  5:11 [STATUS 2.5] July 10, 2002 Guillaume Boissiere
2002-07-10 15:49 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-10 16:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-07-10 16:31   ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-10 16:51     ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-10 17:00       ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-10 16:54     ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-07-10 17:25       ` John Levon
2002-07-10 19:19         ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-07-10 17:17     ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 20:21     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-10 17:12 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-10 17:42 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-10 17:54 ` Robert Love
2002-07-10 19:18   ` Ville Herva
2002-07-10 20:03     ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-07-10 20:20       ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-10 20:25         ` Robert Love
2002-07-10 20:41           ` Ville Herva
2002-07-10 21:07         ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 20:46           ` Robert Love
2002-07-11  9:46           ` Rogier Wolff
2002-07-10 20:26     ` Justin M. Forbes
2002-07-10 17:46 Perches, Joe
2002-07-10 18:05 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-10 18:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 18:49   ` Kurt Garloff
2002-07-10 19:19     ` Larry Kessler
2002-07-10 21:15       ` Alan Cox
2002-07-11 18:07         ` Anton Blanchard
2002-07-10 21:27     ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 18:08 Russ Weight
2002-07-11 19:21 Richard J Moore
2002-07-11 20:34 Richard J Moore
2002-07-13  9:28 ` Ingo Oeser

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