From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262819AbVGHXmK (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:42:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262989AbVGHXmF (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:42:05 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:15079 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262819AbVGHXk6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:40:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt From: Lee Revell To: "David S. Miller" Cc: mbligh@mbligh.org, cw@f00f.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20050708.162924.106265517.davem@davemloft.net> References: <133660000.1120863575@flay> <20050708230303.GA19188@taniwha.stupidest.org> <136640000.1120864499@flay> <20050708.162924.106265517.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:40:56 -0400 Message-Id: <1120866056.6488.43.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 16:29 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "Martin J. Bligh" > Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:14:59 -0700 > > > I'm not saying there isn't data supporting higher HZ ... I just haven't > > seen it published. I get the feeling what people really want is high-res > > timers anyway ... high HZ is just concealing the issue and making it > > slightly less crap, not actually fixing it. > > We very much want sub-HZ timers, especially in the networking. ALSA would also benefit greatly from this. Lee