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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: HZ in 2.6 on PPC32
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:59:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1061657994.772.6.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061654591.1251.34.camel@thor.holligenstrasse29.lan>


On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 18:03, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Why is this still defined to 100? I'm running at 1000 now, and it makes
> a huge difference for interactivity. Moreover, CONFIG_PREEMPT now makes
> things even better instead of worse. :)
>
> If the reason is the slow PPC32 CPUs still around, maybe make it a
> config option?

A config option would probably be a better idea, I doubt lots of embedded
or low end configs wants HZ at 1000... Regarding CONFIG_PREEMPT, it's
really weird that it "makes things worse" for you with HZ at 100. But
that may also be the 2.6-test scheduler suckyness...

Ben.


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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-23 16:03 HZ in 2.6 on PPC32 Michel Dänzer
2003-08-23 16:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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