Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:01:19 +0100 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Fix two things. Firstly the unit is "Hz" not "HZ". Secondly it is useful > to have 300Hz support when doing multimedia work. 250 is fine for us in > Europe but the US frame rate is 30fps (29.99 blah for pedants). 300 > gives us a tick divisible by both 25 and 30, and for interlace work 50 > and 60. It's also giving similar performance to 250Hz. > > I'd argue we should remove 250 and add 300, but that might be excess > disruption for now. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> > > diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude > linux.vanilla-2.6.19-rc4-mm1/kernel/Kconfig.hz > linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1/kernel/Kconfig.hz > --- linux.vanilla-2.6.19-rc4-mm1/kernel/Kconfig.hz 2006-10-31 > 15:40:54.000000000 +0000 > +++ linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1/kernel/Kconfig.hz 2006-11-08 17:06:38.000000000 > +0000 > @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ > default HZ_250 > help > Allows the configuration of the timer frequency. It is customary > - to have the timer interrupt run at 1000 HZ but 100 HZ may be more > + to have the timer interrupt run at 1000 Hz but 100 Hz may be more > beneficial for servers and NUMA systems that do not need to have > a fast response for user interaction and that may experience bus > contention and cacheline bounces as a result of timer interrupts. > @@ -19,21 +19,30 @@ > config HZ_100 > bool "100 HZ" [...] > config HZ_250 > bool "250 HZ" [...] > + config HZ_300 > + bool "300 HZ" [...] > config HZ_1000 > bool "1000 HZ"
Shouldn't be these also changed (I mean those in quotes)?
regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E - 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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