From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5] July 10, 2002
Date: 10 Jul 2002 13:03:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1026331418.1244.82.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020710191824.GT1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 12:18, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:54:21AM -0700, you [Robert Love] wrote:
> >
> > As of 2.5.25, we have HZ=1000 (on x86) and a scalable user-space
> > exported clock_t that remains at 100 HZ to keep user-space compatible.
> > This is attributed to the Commander in Chief, Linus Torvalds.
>
> But jiffies now wrap at 49.7 days, right? If so, did Tim Schmielau's jiffies
> wrap patches go in as well? ISTR they went in -dj.
George Anzinger's 64-bit jiffies are in 2.5.
Tim's code to better utilize them is in 2.5 I _think_.
> Didn't Red Hat change HZ to 1000 (or 1024) in Limbo as well? How did they
> handle that?
Yes, RedHat's current devel kernel is using HZ=1000. I am not sure how
they handled it. What we have in 2.5 now is correct.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-10 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-10 5:11 [STATUS 2.5] July 10, 2002 Guillaume Boissiere
2002-07-10 15:49 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-10 16:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-07-10 16:31 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-10 16:51 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-10 17:00 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-10 16:54 ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-07-10 17:25 ` John Levon
2002-07-10 19:19 ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-07-10 17:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 20:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-10 17:12 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-10 17:42 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-10 17:54 ` Robert Love
2002-07-10 19:18 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-10 20:03 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-07-10 20:20 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-10 20:25 ` Robert Love
2002-07-10 20:41 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-10 21:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 20:46 ` Robert Love
2002-07-11 9:46 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-07-10 20:26 ` Justin M. Forbes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-10 17:46 Perches, Joe
2002-07-10 18:05 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-10 18:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 18:49 ` Kurt Garloff
2002-07-10 19:19 ` Larry Kessler
2002-07-10 21:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-11 18:07 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-07-10 21:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 18:08 Russ Weight
2002-07-11 19:21 Richard J Moore
2002-07-11 20:34 Richard J Moore
2002-07-13 9:28 ` Ingo Oeser
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