Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Lee Revell
2005-07-09T18:43:03Z

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:39 +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:16:31 -0400,
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> escribió:
>
> > I still think you're absolutely insane to change the default in the
> > middle of a stable kernel series. People WILL complain about it.
>
>
> Lots of people have switched from 2.4 to 2.6 (100 Hz to 1000 Hz) with no impact in
> stability, AFAIK. (I only remember some weird warning about HZ with debian woody's
> ps).
>

Yes, that's called "progress" so no one complained. Going back is
called a "regression". People don't like those as much.

Lee