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From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Richard C Bilson <rcbilson@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@Bull.Net>,
	Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: Re: setitimer 1 usec fails
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 13:01:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ED3C433.6020002@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16083.44589.855335.531141@napali.hpl.hp.com>

David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>On Mon, 26 May 2003 15:00:53 -0700, george anzinger <george@mvista.com> said:
> 
> 
>   George> As a test, you might try your test with HZ=1000 (a number I
>   George> recommend for ia64, if at all possible).
> 
> I suspect you might have a slightly biased view on this. ;-) Yes,
> HZ=1000 makes some problems easier to convert ticks to real time, but
> slower to convert real time to ticks.

Ulrich has written something on this.  Maybe he could comment  :)

-g

> 
> Besides, the Linux kernel MUST work with (fairly) arbitrary HZ values,
> because some platforms just don't have much of a choice (e.g., Alpha
> is pretty much forced to 1024Hz).
> 
> But, yes, on ia64 we can choose HZ to our liking.  If someone presents
> evidence that shows a real benefit for a value other than 1024, I'm
> certainly willing to listen.
> 
> 	--david
> 
> 

-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-27 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030526142555.67a79694.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-05-26 22:00 ` setitimer 1 usec fails george anzinger
2003-05-27  9:05   ` Eric Piel
2003-05-27 18:27   ` David Mosberger
2003-05-27 20:01     ` george anzinger [this message]
2003-05-27 17:19 Richard C Bilson
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2003-05-26 21:09 Richard C Bilson

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