From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:40:18 +0000 Subject: Re: time to reconsider HZ? Message-Id: <16878.39810.545323.698403@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <16872.45685.696721.811934@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <16872.45685.696721.811934@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:54:09 -0800 (PST), Christoph Lameter said: Christoph> I think its not a big issue and may still be beneficial Christoph> if occasions arise where one has to divide by HZ. Do you Christoph> know why the code size is reduced? I assume it's because we're doing more tick -> msec than tick -> sec conversions, but I haven't tried to verify that. I agree that we should first find out what the real reason for the code-size reduction is before changing (though the "not wanting to be needlessly different" argument still remains...). --david