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    SubjectRe: finding out the value of HZ from userspace
    Jamie Lokier wrote:
    > Peter Williams wrote:
    >
    >>>Will this be USER_HZ or kernel HZ?
    >>>Someone earlier suggested it would be USER_HZ which would make it
    >>>pointless.
    >>
    >>It has to be whatever enables user space to correctly interpret values
    >>sent to user space as "ticks". That means USER_HZ and it's not useless
    >>as it enables USER_HZ to be different and/or change without breaking
    >>programs that use values expressed in "ticks".
    >
    >
    > It is, however, useless for the _other_ reasons userspace needs to
    > know kernel HZ, including as I mentioned userspace timer granularity.

    Theoretically, which I know can be a pain, user space timer granularity
    should be in USER_HZ as, theoretically, this is the only one user space
    is supposed to know about. Because of this, in my view, HZ and USER_HZ
    should be the same or USER_HZ should be greater than HZ.

    >
    > (Btw, that usage would be better as a period rather than a frequency,
    > so that a "tickless" kernel can report zero).

    _SC_CLK_TCK is a POSIX.1 definition and can't be changed. But I don't
    think that there's any impediment to adding new parameters that can be
    reported by sysconf().

    >
    > The fundamental problem is that there are two values, and both values
    > have programs which can usefully use them.
    >
    > How hard can it be to export both?
    >

    Making HZ == USER_HZ would also solve the problem.

    Peter
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