From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261514AbVFIB6v (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:58:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262004AbVFIB6v (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:58:51 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:36737 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261514AbVFIB6j (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:58:39 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 From: Lee Revell To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1004450000.1118188239@flay> <20050607165656.2517b417.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:58:56 -0400 Message-Id: <1118282337.6247.48.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:02 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Diffprofile is wacko (HZ seems to be defaulting to 250 in -mm). > > > > Oh crap, so it does. That's wrong. > > Email by you and Linus indicated that 250 should be the default. Wait, does that mean the default HZ is going to be changed in the 2.6.x timeframe? That's a big user-visible regression, as it makes the sleep() resolution worse, and would force apps with tight timing requirements to go back to using the RTC like on 2.4. Unless, of course, the plan is to merge the high-res timers patch at the same time. Lee