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

Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-09T18:32:39Z

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:08 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > WHAT?
> > > >
> > > > The previous value here i386 is 1000 --- so why is the default 250.
> > >
> > > Because 1000 is too high.
> > >
> >
> > What happened to 300 as default, as that is divisible by both 50 and 60
> > (or something like that) ?
>
> I still think you're absolutely insane to change the default in the
> middle of a stable kernel series. People WILL complain about it.

why?

it's a config option. Some distros ship 100 already, others 1000, again
others will do 250. What does it matter?
(Although I still prefer 300 over 250 due to the 50/60 thing)

This is not a userspace visible thing really with few exceptions, and
well people can select the one they want, right?