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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:16:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124320620.3591.14.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430376B8.9040404@aknet.ru>

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 21:41 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> I guess now I realized how you (and Nish)
> assume I could use it: is it that I
> should set CONFIG_HZ to the value I
> need at compile-time, and just remove
> all the timer reprogramming from the
> driver in a hope the dynamic-tick patch
> will slow it down itself when necessary? 

The current implementations don't allow HZ to go higher than CONFIG_HZ
but that's the next logical step.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-17 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-13 13:36 [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks Stas Sergeev
2005-08-15 17:19 ` john stultz
2005-08-16 20:21   ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-16 22:24     ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-08-17 16:10       ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-17  2:09     ` Lee Revell
2005-08-17 16:21       ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-17 16:40         ` Lee Revell
2005-08-17 17:41           ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-17 23:16             ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-08-18 16:59               ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-18 17:07                 ` Lee Revell

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