From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261223AbVGMQuH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:50:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261244AbVGMQsJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:48:09 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:54190 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261223AbVGMQq7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:46:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt From: Lee Revell To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Martin J. Bligh" , Diego Calleja , azarah@nosferatu.za.org, akpm@osdl.org, cw@f00f.org, torvalds@osdl.org, christoph@lameter.org In-Reply-To: <42D540C2.9060201@tmr.com> References: <200506231828.j5NISlCe020350@hera.kernel.org> <20050712121008.GA7804@ucw.cz> <200507122239.03559.kernel@kolivas.org> <200507122253.03212.kernel@kolivas.org> <42D3E852.5060704@mvista.com> <20050712162740.GA8938@ucw.cz> <42D540C2.9060201@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:46:57 -0400 Message-Id: <1121273217.4435.29.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 Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:26 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > Going to HZ=864 would fix this problem. It would likely cause other > > problems in places that expect 1/HZ to be a sane number, though. > > > But if you are going to an "odd" value, would 1381 would be a better > choice, given the interest in minimizing latency currently evident? No, I think 864 is quite good enough. 1381 seems overkill even for multimedia, people who need that can use the RTC anyway. Lee