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SubjectRe: [STATUS 2.5] July 10, 2002
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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 12:18, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:54:21AM -0700, you [Robert Love] wrote:
> >
> > As of 2.5.25, we have HZ=1000 (on x86) and a scalable user-space
> > exported clock_t that remains at 100 HZ to keep user-space compatible.
> > This is attributed to the Commander in Chief, Linus Torvalds.
>
> But jiffies now wrap at 49.7 days, right? If so, did Tim Schmielau's jiffies
> wrap patches go in as well? ISTR they went in -dj.

George Anzinger's 64-bit jiffies are in 2.5.

Tim's code to better utilize them is in 2.5 I _think_.

> Didn't Red Hat change HZ to 1000 (or 1024) in Limbo as well? How did they
> handle that?

Yes, RedHat's current devel kernel is using HZ=1000. I am not sure how
they handled it. What we have in 2.5 now is correct.

Robert Love

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