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On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 03:31 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2005 00:18, Claudio Scordino wrote: > > Hi, > > > > during the last years there has been a lot of discussion about the > > "best" value of HZ... On i386 was 100, then became 1000, and finally was > > set to 250. I'm thinking to do an evaluation of this parameter using > > different architectures. > > > > Has anybody thought to give the possibility to modify the value of HZ at > > boot time instead of at compile time ? This would allow to easily test > > different values on different machines and create a table containing the > > "best" value for each architecture... At this moment, instead, we have to > > recompile the kernel for each different value :( > > > > Do you think there would be much work to do that ? > > Do you think it would be a desired feature the knowledge of the best value > > for each architecture with more precision ? > > Google for "dynticks". There's obviously an overhead associated with HZ not > being a constant (the compiler cannot optimise many expressions), but the > feature is being worked on nonetheless. > Well Linus had the best idea in that thread (as usual) which was to implement "dynamic ticks" by leaving HZ a constant, setting it to a high value, and skipping ticks when idle. Has there been any work in that direction? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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