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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Neil Conway <nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4: variable HZ
Date: 18 Oct 2002 14:44:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034966657.722.838.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAFF5C9.807BE885@ukaea.org.uk>

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 07:51, Neil Conway wrote:

> I was looking at your jiffies_to_clock_t() macro, and I notice that it
> will screw up badly if the user chooses a HZ value that isn't a multiple
> of the normal value (e.g. 1000 is OK, 512 isn't).

OK, sure, but why specify a power-of-two HZ?  There is absolutely no
reason to, at least on x86.

Want 512?  500 will do just as well and has the benefit of (a) being a
multiple of the previous HZ and (b) evenly dividing into our concept of
time.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-18 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-18 11:51 [PATCH] 2.4: variable HZ Neil Conway
2002-10-18 18:44 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-10-18 19:38   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-19  7:04     ` jdow
2002-10-21 13:13       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-19  9:36     ` Willy Tarreau
2002-10-21  8:15   ` Neil Conway
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-15  6:03 Robert Love
2002-10-15  6:50 ` Robert Love
2002-10-18 18:27 ` Tim Schmielau

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