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DateFri, 15 Jul 2005 08:42:37 -0400
FromBill Davidsen <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
Lee Revell wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>
>>YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do".
>>
>>MY argument is that this is a case of give and take. 
>> 
>>
>
>I wouldn't say that.  I do agree with you that HZ=1000 for everyone is
>problematic, I just feel that a reasonable compromise is CONFIG_HZ with
>the default left at 1000.
>

I would just say that changing something like this now is probably not a 
great idea, while allowing a config option for 100/250/1000 and maybe 
even 2000 won't make everyone happy, but seems to allow everyone to make 
themselves happy.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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