From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261920AbVGOMgk (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:36:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263270AbVGOMgk (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:36:40 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:26042 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261920AbVGOMgj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:36:39 -0400 Message-ID: <42D7AF3D.4030706@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:42:37 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Linus Torvalds , Vojtech Pavlik , Arjan van de Ven , dean gaudet , Chris Wedgwood , Andrew Morton , "Brown, Len" , dtor_core@ameritech.net, david.lang@digitalinsight.com, kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@mbligh.org, diegocg@gmail.com, azarah@nosferatu.za.org, christoph@lameter.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt References: <1121286258.4435.98.camel@mindpipe> <20050713134857.354e697c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050713211650.GA12127@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050714005106.GA16085@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1121304825.4435.126.camel@mindpipe> <1121326938.3967.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050714121340.GA1072@ucw.cz> <1121383050.4535.73.camel@mindpipe> <1121384499.4535.82.camel@mindpipe> <1121385185.4535.89.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1121385185.4535.89.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: >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >>YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do". >> >>MY argument is that this is a case of give and take. >> >> > >I wouldn't say that. I do agree with you that HZ=1000 for everyone is >problematic, I just feel that a reasonable compromise is CONFIG_HZ with >the default left at 1000. > I would just say that changing something like this now is probably not a great idea, while allowing a config option for 100/250/1000 and maybe even 2000 won't make everyone happy, but seems to allow everyone to make themselves happy. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979