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From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: time to reconsider HZ?
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:54:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501190852300.26378@server.graphe.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16872.45685.696721.811934@napali.hpl.hp.com>

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, David Mosberger wrote:

> Since most other Linux platforms which use HZ>100 use a HZ value of
> 1000, I'm thinking it may be safer to switch ia64 to HZ\x1000 as well
> (principle of least difference possible is generally a good one...).
>
> In the past, I was concerned that there might be enough code that
> divides by HZ that this might not be such a hot idea, but I think this
> may not (or at least no longer) be the case: I compiled the same
> kernel once with HZ\x1000 and once with HZ\x1024 and the code-size
> actually shrunk.
>
> What do others think?

I think its not a big issue and may still be beneficial if occasions arise
where one has to divide by HZ. Do you know why the code size is reduced?


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-19 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-15  6:04 time to reconsider HZ? David Mosberger
2005-01-19 16:54 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2005-01-19 17:40 ` David Mosberger

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