Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Lee Revell
2005-07-12T00:33:39Z

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:39 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 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.

Makes sense. Anyway, this whole thread has been pretty hand wavey, I
propose that until we see some numbers from the HZ=250 advocates, we
leave the default alone.

Lee