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

Chris Wedgwood
2005-07-08T22:07:20Z

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:59:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:28:47AM -0700, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ^^^^^^

> It's been over two weeks and nobody has complained about anything.

Two weeks isn't that long IMO (I only just noticed myself).

> Because 1000 is too high.

How so? There have been comparatively few complaints about this since
we switched quite some time ago.

Strictly speaking I agree 1000 might be too high --- but we've had it
for so long now, almost all over 2.5.x (I think?) and all of 2.6.x.