Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

Andrew Morton
2005-06-21T20:35:11Z

Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 23:54 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > CONFIG_HZ for x86 and ia64: changes default HZ to 250, make HZ
> > Kconfigurable.
> >
> > Will merge (will switch default to 1000 Hz later if that seems
> > necessary)
>
> Are you serious? You're changing the *default* HZ in a stable kernel
> series?!?
>
> This is a big regression, it degrades the resolution of system calls.
>

Well we'll see what happens. As I said, if it's determined to be a real
problem we'll put the default back to 1000Hz prior to 2.6.13 release.