From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261482AbVGLPW5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:22:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261453AbVGLPW4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:22:56 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:22454 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261482AbVGLPWn (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:22:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:22:42 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Lee Revell Cc: Chris Friesen , Diego Calleja , azarah@nosferatu.za.org, akpm@osdl.org, cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, christoph@lameter.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt Message-ID: <17080000.1121181762@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <1121181014.2632.67.camel@mindpipe> 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> <20050709203920.394e970d.diegocg@gmail.com> <1120934466.6488.77.camel@mindpipe> <176640000.1121107087@flay> <1121113532.2383.6.camel@mindpipe> <42D2D912.3090505@nortel.com> <1121128260.2632.12.camel@mindpipe> <165840000.1121141256@[10.10.2.4]> <1121141602.2632.31.camel@mindpipe> <188690000.1121142633@[10.10.2.4]> <1121178300.2632.51.camel@mindpipe> <14170000.1121180207@[10.10.2.4]> <1121180403.2632.59.camel@mindpipe> <15890000.1121180902@[10.10.2.4]> <1121181014.2632.67.camel@mindpipe> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Lee Revell wrote (on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:10:13 -0400): > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:08 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: >> Well, looking forward, you'll have sub-HZ timers, so none of this will >> matter. Actually, looking at the above, 150 seems perfectly reasonable >> to me, but 300 seems to be close enough. I'll run some numbers on both. >> >> > From your above email, I'm more convinced than ever that lowering HZ is >> the right thing to do ... > > Which we can live with of course, I just wanted to make sure people were > aware of the multimedia side of the argument. OK, thanks. and I'm full of shit about 150, too early in the morning. 300 is the lowest common multiple of 50 and 60. M.