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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around for periodic do_gettimeofday hang
Date: 24 Nov 2004 22:27:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101356864.4007.35.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101323621.2811.24.camel@laptop.fenrus.org>

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 13:13, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> while I agree with 100Hz for slower cpus, I rather have a config option for it so people
> (and distros) can select it independent of the exact cpu type they want to compile a kernel for

How about this then?

James

===== arch/i386/Kconfig 1.134 vs edited =====
--- 1.134/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-10-21 20:35:11 -05:00
+++ edited/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-11-24 20:56:53 -06:00
@@ -330,6 +330,14 @@
 
 endchoice
 
+config X86_HZ
+       int "Clock Tick Rate"
+       default 1000 if !(M386 || M486 || M586 || M586TSC || M586MMX)	
+       default 100 if (M386 || M486 || M586 || M586TSC || M586MMX)	
+       help
+	  Select the kernel clock tick rate in interrupts per second.
+	  Slower processors should choose 100; everything else 1000.
+
 config X86_GENERIC
        bool "Generic x86 support"
        help
===== include/asm-i386/param.h 1.6 vs edited =====
--- 1.6/include/asm-i386/param.h	2004-06-24 03:55:46 -05:00
+++ edited/include/asm-i386/param.h	2004-11-24 20:56:18 -06:00
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 #ifndef _ASMi386_PARAM_H
 #define _ASMi386_PARAM_H
 
+#include <linux/config.h>
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-# define HZ		1000		/* Internal kernel timer frequency */
+# define HZ		(CONFIG_X86_HZ)
 # define USER_HZ	100		/* .. some user interfaces are in "ticks" */
 # define CLOCKS_PER_SEC		(USER_HZ)	/* like times() */
 #endif


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-25  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-24 16:49 [PATCH] Work around for periodic do_gettimeofday hang James Bottomley
2004-11-24 19:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-25  4:27   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-11-25  4:33     ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-25  4:40       ` James Bottomley
2004-11-25  8:20       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-27 22:38         ` Lee Revell
2004-11-25 11:18     ` Roman Zippel
2004-11-25 13:42     ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-25 15:47 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-25 17:33   ` James Bottomley

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