On Apr 01, 2007, at 14:15:20, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

Make HZ fully configurable through menuconfig.

Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/18/111

Instead of that, what about something like this instead: NOTE: I know my mailer mangles diffs and this one was hand-edited based on Jan's diff from within my mailer so it probably doesn't apply, but it's enough to point out the idea:

diff --fast -Ndpru linux-2.6.17-rc6~/kernel/Kconfig.hz linux-2.6.17- rc6+/kernel/Kconfig.hz --- linux-2.6.17-rc6~/kernel/Kconfig.hz 2006-06-06 02:57:02.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.17-rc6+/kernel/Kconfig.hz 2006-06-16 17:15:46.884794000 +0200
@@ -36,10 +36,17 @@
         1000 HZ is the preferred choice for desktop systems and other
         systems requiring fast interactive responses to events.

+       config HZ_CUSTOM
+               bool "Custom HZ"
+       help
+        This allows you to specify your own custom timer frequency, if
+        the default options are not satisfactory for your use.
+
 endchoice

 config HZ
-       int
+       int if !HZ_CUSTOM
+       int "Customized HZ value" if HZ_CUSTOM
        default 100 if HZ_100
        default 250 if HZ_250
        default 1000 if HZ_1000

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