From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261770AbVGIXat (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jul 2005 19:30:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261772AbVGIXat (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jul 2005 19:30:49 -0400 Received: from chretien.genwebhost.com ([209.59.175.22]:42142 "EHLO chretien.genwebhost.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261770AbVGIXaq (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jul 2005 19:30:46 -0400 Message-ID: <19474.71.111.147.75.1120951847.squirrel@chretien.affordablehost.com> In-Reply-To: <1120944358.6488.90.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> <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> <1120944358.6488.90.camel@mindpipe> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt From: "Randy Dunlap" To: "Lee Revell" Cc: "randy_dunlap" , akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org, azarah@nosferatu.za.org, cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, christoph@lameter.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-ClamAntiVirus-Scanner: This mail is clean X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - chretien.genwebhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - xenotime.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell said: > 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. hey, that seems to expect some top-level release (or project) management. ;) anyway, I was just trying to point out more than one side to this, and you have now done the same. thanks. -- ~Randy