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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	John Daiker <jdaiker@osdl.org>, John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Dan Higgins <djh@sgi.com>,
	Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:48:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A3AFFB.2000203@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151578928.23785.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Iau, 2006-06-29 am 05:37 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jes Sorensen:
>> You have my vote for that one. Anything else is just going to cause
>> those broken userapps to continue doing the wrong thing. We should
>> really do this on all archs though.
> 
> No need, all current mainstream architectures expose a constant user HZ.

But you are still going to have the issue where someone installs their
own kernel and apps will break because of this? Getting the distros to
stop publishing a constant HZ is probably the right solution, but more
difficult :(

Cheers,
Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-29 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-28 17:36 [PATCH] ia64: change usermode HZ to 250 Luck, Tony
2006-06-29  9:37 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-29 11:02   ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 10:48     ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-06-29 10:55       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-29 12:56         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-07-08  0:14         ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-08  2:51           ` Tony Luck
2006-07-08  6:42           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-08 13:07             ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-10 20:22               ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-11  3:01                 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-07-11 10:10                   ` Alan Cox
2006-07-11 18:37                   ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-07-12  2:02                     ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-06-29 11:34       ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-09 19:18 Luck, Tony
2006-06-29 14:09 Albert Cahalan
2006-06-27 22:26 Luck, Tony
2006-06-27 23:09 ` Lee Revell
2006-06-28  8:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 10:47   ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 10:34     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 14:46       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-27 22:01 hawkes
2006-06-28  8:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28 15:43   ` John Hawkes
2006-06-28 16:21     ` Alan Cox
2006-06-28 16:11       ` John Daiker
2006-06-28 16:50         ` Alan Cox

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