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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	John Daiker <jdaiker@osdl.org>, John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Dan Higgins <djh@sgi.com>,
	Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:56:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq0veqkgly2.fsf@jaguar.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151578513.3122.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

>>>>> "Arjan" = Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:

Arjan> read what Alan said: the HZ exposed to userspace is
Arjan> *constant*. For example, the i386 user visible HZ is 100, even
Arjan> if the kernel runs at a HZ of 250 or 1000.... Just when a HZ
Arjan> value gets exposed to userspace, it's transformed into a HZ\x100
Arjan> based value.

Arjan> And that's not a distribution thing, that's the kernel.org
Arjan> kernel honoring the stable-userspace-interface contract, and
Arjan> common sense..

See what you mean, thanks.

Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-29 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-27 22:01 [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250 hawkes
2006-06-27 22:26 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-27 23:09   ` Lee Revell
2006-06-28  8:43   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 10:47     ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 10:34       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 14:46         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-28  8:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 15:43   ` John Hawkes
2006-06-28 16:21     ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 16:11       ` John Daiker
2006-06-28 16:50         ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 17:36 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-29  9:37   ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-29 10:46     ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 10:48       ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-29 10:55         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-29 12:56           ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-07-08  0:14           ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-08  2:51             ` Tony Luck
2006-07-08  6:42             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-08 13:07               ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-10 20:22                 ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-11  3:01                   ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-11  9:53                     ` Alan Cox
2006-07-11 18:37                     ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-12  2:02                       ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-06-29 11:34         ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 14:09 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-09 19:18 ` Luck, Tony

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