From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262679AbVGKUnI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:43:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262677AbVGKUmP (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:42:15 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:24049 "EHLO zcars04e.ca.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262656AbVGKUkn (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:40:43 -0400 Message-ID: <42D2D912.3090505@nortel.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:39:46 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: "Martin J. Bligh" , Diego Calleja , azarah@nosferatu.za.org, akpm@osdl.org, cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, christoph@lameter.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt References: <200506231828.j5NISlCe020350@hera.kernel.org> <20050708214908.GA31225@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050708145953.0b2d8030.akpm@osdl.org> <1120928891.17184.10.camel@lycan.lan> <1120932991.6488.64.camel@mindpipe> <20050709203920.394e970d.diegocg@gmail.com> <1120934466.6488.77.camel@mindpipe> <176640000.1121107087@flay> <1121113532.2383.6.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1121113532.2383.6.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > Tickless + sub HZ timers is a win for everyone, the multimedia people > get better latency, and the laptop people get to run longer. IIRC it's not a win for many systems. Throughput goes down due to timer manipulation overhead. Chris