From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262829AbVGHWHU (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:07:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262901AbVGHWHD (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:07:03 -0400 Received: from ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.60]:12485 "EHLO ylpvm29.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262829AbVGHWFZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:05:25 -0400 X-ORBL: [63.202.173.158] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:05:21 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, christoph@lameter.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt Message-ID: <20050708220521.GA4926@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <200506231828.j5NISlCe020350@hera.kernel.org> <20050708214908.GA31225@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050708145953.0b2d8030.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050708145953.0b2d8030.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:59:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:28:47AM -0700, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ^^^^^^ > It's been over two weeks and nobody has complained about anything. Two weeks isn't that long IMO (I only just noticed myself). > Because 1000 is too high. How so? There have been comparatively few complaints about this since we switched quite some time ago. Strictly speaking I agree 1000 might be too high --- but we've had it for so long now, almost all over 2.5.x (I think?) and all of 2.6.x.