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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:19:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4750E0D7.9060402@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071201003333.GR29463@stusta.de>

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> I have read the hep text, but are the advantages of HZ == 300 really 
> visible or was this more theoretical?
> 
> In the latter case, we might remove the HZ == 300 choice instead.
> 

Well, we have, for various architectures:

HZ == 48, 100, 128, 250, 256, 300, 1000, 1024

You'd have to kill 48, 128, 256, 300 and 1024.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-01  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-30  0:19 [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  1:54 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30  3:01   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  3:27   ` [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  3:32   ` [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements (resend without truncated comment text) H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  7:16     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-11-30 17:40       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30 17:47       ` [PATCH] Documentation/Changes -> Documentation/Requirements H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30 18:09         ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-30 18:20           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  1:59 ` [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c Chris Snook
2007-11-30  3:04   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30  3:40     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-30  3:54       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-02 18:37         ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-03 14:53         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-10 16:37           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-01  0:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-01  4:19   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-12-01 13:20   ` Alan Cox
2007-12-01 13:33     ` Alan Cox
2007-12-02  1:53     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-07  0:22   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-04 11:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-10 16:46   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-10 18:59   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-10 22:04     ` Andrew Morton

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