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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Cc: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	John Daiker <jdaiker@osdl.org>, John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Dan Higgins <djh@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:53:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152612614.18028.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed5aea430607102001g514bfa97jf82c25a038e9c436@mail.gmail.com>

Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 21:01 -0600, ysgrifennodd David Mosberger-Tang:
> Note that Alan didn't claim that *all* (Linux-supported) architectures
> expose a constant user HZ, only the "mainstream" ones.  I won't get

Indeed. IA64 likes to be different

> into the debate as to what qualifies as "mainstream", but clearly IA64
> does not (and should not) expose a constant value, since there were no
> legacy-binary-issue and we chose to insist that apps should uses
> sysconf() or equivalent if they need to know the clocktick.

In the case where you are running x86 binaries where you do need to
translate of course.

Alan


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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Cc: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	John Daiker <jdaiker@osdl.org>, John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Dan Higgins <djh@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:10:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152612614.18028.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed5aea430607102001g514bfa97jf82c25a038e9c436@mail.gmail.com>

Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 21:01 -0600, ysgrifennodd David Mosberger-Tang:
> Note that Alan didn't claim that *all* (Linux-supported) architectures
> expose a constant user HZ, only the "mainstream" ones.  I won't get

Indeed. IA64 likes to be different

> into the debate as to what qualifies as "mainstream", but clearly IA64
> does not (and should not) expose a constant value, since there were no
> legacy-binary-issue and we chose to insist that apps should uses
> sysconf() or equivalent if they need to know the clocktick.

In the case where you are running x86 binaries where you do need to
translate of course.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-11  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-27 22:01 [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250 hawkes
2006-06-27 22:01 ` hawkes
2006-06-27 22:26 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-27 22:26   ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-27 23:09   ` Lee Revell
2006-06-27 23:09     ` Lee Revell
2006-06-28  8:43   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28  8:43     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 10:47     ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 10:47       ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 10:34       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 10:34         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 14:46         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-28 14:46           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-28  8:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28  8:39   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 15:43   ` John Hawkes
2006-06-28 15:43     ` John Hawkes
2006-06-28 16:21     ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 16:21       ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 16:11       ` John Daiker
2006-06-28 16:11         ` John Daiker
2006-06-28 16:50         ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 16:50           ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 17:36 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-28 17:36   ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-29  9:37   ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-29  9:37     ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-29 10:46     ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 11:02       ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 10:48       ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-29 10:48         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-29 10:55         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-29 10:55           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-29 12:56           ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-29 12:56             ` Jes Sorensen
2006-07-08  0:14           ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-08  0:14             ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-08  2:51             ` Tony Luck
2006-07-08  2:51               ` Tony Luck
2006-07-08  6:42             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-08  6:42               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-08 13:07               ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-08 13:07                 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-10 20:22                 ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-10 20:22                   ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-11  3:01                   ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-11  3:01                     ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-11  9:53                     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-07-11 10:10                       ` Alan Cox
2006-07-11 18:37                     ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-11 18:37                       ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-12  2:02                       ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-12  2:02                         ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-06-29 11:34         ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 11:34           ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 14:09 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-06-29 14:09   ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-09 19:18 ` Luck, Tony
2006-07-09 19:18   ` Luck, Tony

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