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

Lee Revell
2005-07-09T21:26:06Z

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:30 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote:
> | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default
> | alone. Why should everyone have to bear the cost?
>
> indeed, why should everyone have to have 1000 timer interrupts per second?

So why waste everyone's time with CONFIG_HZ when there are working
dynamic tick solutions out there? It's just bad release engineering.

Lee