From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261740AbVGIV0G (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:26:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261736AbVGIV0G (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:26:06 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:50860 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261742AbVGIV0A (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:26:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt From: Lee Revell To: randy_dunlap Cc: akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org, azarah@nosferatu.za.org, cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, christoph@lameter.org In-Reply-To: <20050709133036.11e60a3c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <200506231828.j5NISlCe020350@hera.kernel.org> <20050708214908.GA31225@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050708145953.0b2d8030.akpm@osdl.org> <1120928891.17184.10.camel@lycan.lan> <1120932991.6488.64.camel@mindpipe> <1120933916.3176.57.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1120934163.6488.72.camel@mindpipe> <20050709121212.7539a048.akpm@osdl.org> <1120936561.6488.84.camel@mindpipe> <20050709133036.11e60a3c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:25:58 -0400 Message-Id: <1120944358.6488.90.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:30 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: > | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default > | alone. Why should everyone have to bear the cost? > > indeed, why should everyone have to have 1000 timer interrupts per second? So why waste everyone's time with CONFIG_HZ when there are working dynamic tick solutions out there? It's just bad release engineering. Lee