From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:01:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:00:57 -0400 Received: from u-89-18.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.18.89]:9205 "EHLO dea.waldorf-gmbh.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:00:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 03:57:39 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to know HZ from userspace? Message-ID: <20010601035739.A1630@bacchus.dhis.org> In-Reply-To: <20010530203725.H27719@corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva> <9f41vq$our$1@cesium.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9f41vq$our$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:07:22PM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:07:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yes, but that's because the interfaces are broken. The decision has > been that these values should be exported using the default HZ for the > architecture, and that it is the kernel's responsibility to scale them > when HZ != USER_HZ. I don't know if any work has been done in this > area. We have such patches in the MIPS tree but I never dared to send them to Linus ... Ralf