From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262604AbVGMVir (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:38:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262471AbVGMVif (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:38:35 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:37087 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262607AbVGMViT (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:38:19 -0400 Message-ID: <42D5897D.2030000@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:37:01 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Chris Wedgwood , Andrew Morton , "Brown, Len" , dtor_core@ameritech.net, torvalds@osdl.org, vojtech@suse.cz, david.lang@digitalinsight.com, davidsen@tmr.com, kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@mbligh.org, diegocg@gmail.com, azarah@nosferatu.za.org, christoph@lameter.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt References: <42D3E852.5060704@mvista.com> <20050712162740.GA8938@ucw.cz> <42D540C2.9060201@tmr.com> <20050713184227.GB2072@ucw.cz> <1121282025.4435.70.camel@mindpipe> <1121286258.4435.98.camel@mindpipe> <20050713134857.354e697c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050713211650.GA12127@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1121289881.4435.102.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1121289881.4435.102.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > Does anyone object to setting HZ at boot? I suspect nothing else will > make everyone happy. Makes it harder to optimize the conversions, doesn't it? Knowing the HZ value at compile-time would allow the compiler to do it's thing better in some cases. Chris