From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>,
Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Liam Girdwood <l_girdwood@bitwise.co.uk>,
BALBIR SINGH <balbir.singh@wipro.com>,
William Olaf Fraczyk <olaf@navi.pl>,
Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:12:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CBC4D5B.C7EF2C8C@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0204161231440.16531-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Mark Mielke wrote:
>
> > Increasing the HZ can only improve responsiveness, however, there is a
> > cost (mentioned by others). The cost is that the scheduler is executed
> > more often per second. If the scheduler does the same amount of work
> > per tick, but there are more ticks per second, the scheduler does more
> > work overall, and the CPU is free for use by the processes less.
>
> Why are you discussing Linux 1.2 ?
>
> Linux is not running the scheduler each cpu tick and hasn't
> done this for years.
Very true. However it does run the timer/clock code every tick, which is still
additional overhead when the tick time is reduced.
The basic idea (increased overhead at higher HZ) is sound, the details are not.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-16 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-16 7:47 Why HZ on i386 is 100 ? Olaf Fraczyk
2002-04-16 8:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-04-16 8:18 ` BALBIR SINGH
2002-04-16 10:29 ` Liam Girdwood
2002-04-16 10:01 ` Olaf Fraczyk
2002-04-16 13:35 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-16 13:38 ` Mark Mielke
2002-04-16 13:55 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-16 15:32 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-16 16:12 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2002-04-16 17:12 ` Mark Mielke
2002-04-16 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-17 0:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-16 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-16 16:50 ` David Mosberger
2002-04-16 17:18 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-04-16 17:52 ` David Mosberger
2002-04-16 18:10 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-04-17 0:49 ` David Mosberger
2002-04-17 0:57 ` Robert Love
2002-04-17 1:07 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-04-17 5:18 ` Mark Mielke
2002-04-17 5:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-17 6:01 ` Robert Love
2002-04-17 6:17 ` David Mosberger
2002-04-17 7:59 ` arjan
2002-04-17 8:04 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-04-23 22:42 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-04-17 10:12 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-18 1:51 ` Dan Mann
2002-04-17 1:22 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-04-17 3:19 ` Ben Greear
2002-04-17 7:55 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-21 18:00 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-22 17:20 ` John Alvord
2002-04-22 21:52 ` george anzinger
2002-04-22 23:06 ` J.D. Bakker
2002-04-22 23:26 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-04-23 19:03 ` george anzinger
2002-04-23 7:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-22 17:24 ` David Mosberger
2002-04-16 12:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-16 12:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-16 14:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-16 21:34 ` bert hubert
2002-04-16 22:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-16 22:37 ` Herbert Xu
2002-04-16 22:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-17 0:34 ` J. Dow
2002-04-17 2:40 ` Herbert Xu
2002-04-17 12:44 ` Kent Borg
2002-04-17 8:28 ` please merge 64-bit jiffy patches. Was " bert hubert
2002-04-17 11:05 ` please merge 64-bit jiffy patches Tim Schmielau
2002-04-17 11:12 ` bert hubert
2002-04-17 12:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-17 12:42 ` bert hubert
2002-04-17 14:57 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-17 11:09 ` please merge 64-bit jiffy patches. Was Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ? Wakko Warner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-16 10:41 Cabaniols, Sebastien
2002-04-17 0:33 Chen, Kenneth W
2002-04-17 1:02 ` Davide Libenzi
[not found] <3CC4861C.F21859A6@mvista.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <E16zuPf-0007yD-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-04-23 7:17 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-23 19:09 ` george anzinger
2002-04-24 1:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-24 20:20 ` george anzinger
2002-04-27 20:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-28 6:02 ` george anzinger
2002-04-28 9:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-28 17:34 ` george anzinger
2002-04-28 18:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-28 21:50 ` george anzinger
2002-04-29 0:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-23 19:24 ` george anzinger
2002-04-23 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-24 17:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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