From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Mosberger-Tang" Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:07:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250 Message-Id: List-Id: References: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A27FC5F@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> <1151578928.23785.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44A3AFFB.2000203@sgi.com> <1151578513.3122.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060708001427.GA723842@sgi.com> <1152340963.3120.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1152340963.3120.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jeremy Higdon , Jes Sorensen , Alan Cox , "Luck, Tony" , John Daiker , John Hawkes , Tony Luck , Andrew Morton , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Steiner , Dan Higgins Nothing is broken. Read Alan's statement carefully... --david On 7/8/06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > So does i386 convert the return value of the times(2) call to user > > hertz? On IA64, it returns the value in internal clock ticks, and > > then when a program uses the value in param.h, it gets it wrong now, > > because internal HZ is now 250. > > > > So is times() is broken in IA64, or is this an exception to Alan's > > statement? > > yes it's broken; it needs to convert it to the original HZ (1024) and > make the sysconf() function also return 1024 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Mosberger Consulting LLC, http://www.mosberger-consulting.com/