Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

[Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>]

Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> 
>>Want a config option? Either int or bool (CONFIG_LOW_HZ). It's not too 
>>much effort.
> 
> 
> I guess I forgot the half of it...
> 
> What arches do we want?
> 
> Index: arch/i386/Config.help
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/thunder-2.5/arch/i386/Config.help,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> diff -p -u -r1.4 Config.help
> --- arch/i386/Config.help	7 Jul 2002 09:59:46 -0000	1.4
> +++ arch/i386/Config.help	10 Jul 2002 22:40:17 -0000
> @@ -991,3 +991,13 @@ CONFIG_X86_EARLY_PRINTK
>    to the console  much earlier in the boot  process than printk.  This
>    is useful when  debugging fatal problems early in  the boot sequence
>    (e.g. within setup_arch).  If unsure, say N.
> +
> +Low kernel scheduler rate
> +CONFIG_SCHED_LOW_HZ
> +  Enable this  if you care about  your CPU sleeping  time. The current
> +  interval for  scheduling processes in  the kernel has  recently been
> +  increased. The advantage is less latency for many things that depend

Perhaps s/increased/shortened/ ?

> +  on the  timer, the disadvantage is  that your cpu  will probably not
> +  go to sleep in time (so  CPU power management will possibly not work
> +  at all)
> +
> Index: include/asm-i386/param.h
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Eli
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