From: Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:52:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406613BC.90602@aurema.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040327133133.GB21884@mail.shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>
>>Making HZ == USER_HZ would also solve the problem.
>
>
> They were equal once.
>
> Making them equal now would reintroduce the problem that USER_HZ was
> created to resolve: some userspace programs hard-code the value, so it
> cannot be changed in interfaces used by those programs.
That was the wrong solution to that particular problem. The programs
should have been fixed rather than the kernel being maimed to
accommodate their shortcomings.
Peter
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Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
2004-03-11 14:17 ` finding out the value of HZ from userspace Micha Feigin
2004-03-13 17:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-13 19:34 ` John Reiser
2004-03-13 19:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-13 22:14 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-13 22:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-14 1:05 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-14 1:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-14 14:37 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-16 0:28 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-16 6:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-16 23:38 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-20 10:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-20 11:28 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-20 11:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-20 23:58 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-21 1:09 ` Tim Schmielau
2004-03-21 1:30 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-21 8:00 ` Kai Henningsen
2004-03-21 10:32 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-22 22:34 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-22 23:04 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-25 17:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-25 23:22 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-27 13:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-27 23:52 ` Peter Williams [this message]
2004-03-28 12:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-27 21:11 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-20 23:26 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-13 21:19 ` tabris
2004-03-13 22:10 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-13 22:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-14 1:07 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-14 18:26 ` John Reiser
2004-03-14 2:45 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-14 14:39 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-15 8:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-16 18:16 ` Mark Gross
2004-03-15 10:13 ` Richard Curnow
[not found] ` <200403161757.48786.mgross@linux.intel.com>
[not found] ` <20040317023059.GD19564@mail.shareable.org>
2004-03-17 16:48 ` Call for HRT in 2.6 kernel was " Mark Gross
2004-03-17 20:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-17 21:25 ` Mark Gross
2004-03-18 1:19 ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-03-18 11:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-18 15:23 ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-03-21 1:55 ` Erik Andersen
2004-03-23 22:35 ` Karim Yaghmour
[not found] <1zkOe-Uc-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1zl7M-1eJ-43@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1zn9p-3mW-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1znj5-3wM-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1AaWr-655-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-16 2:27 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-16 5:53 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-16 6:16 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-16 23:15 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-16 23:56 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-17 0:15 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-16 9:16 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-03-16 23:45 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-16 16:14 Albert Cahalan
2004-03-16 17:22 ` Richard Curnow
2004-03-20 9:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-20 14:54 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-03-20 23:58 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-31 21:40 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-31 23:46 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-04-01 15:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-01 16:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-01 16:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-01 16:50 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-01 17:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-01 21:27 ` Michael Buesch
2004-04-02 0:16 ` Peter Williams
2004-04-02 0:07 ` Peter Williams
2004-04-02 0:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-02 1:44 ` Peter Williams
2004-04-02 18:28 ` Tim Bird
2004-04-02 22:05 ` Peter Williams
2004-04-01 16:12 ` Albert Cahalan
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