On 7/15/05, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > I don't think this will fly because we take a big performance hit by > > calculating HZ at runtime. > > I think it might be an acceptable solution for a distribution that really > needed it, since it should be fairly simple. However, it's definitely not > the right solution. > > HOWEVER. I bet that somebody who really really cares (hint hint) could > easily make HZ be 1000, and then dynamically tweak the divisor at bootup > to be either 1000, 250, or 100, and then increment "jiffies" by 1, 4 or > 10. > [...] > > Really. I dare you guys. First one to send me a tested patch gets a gold > star. >
Testing a patch right now, I'll send it to you as soon as it doesn't blow up on boot (which it currently does). -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/