Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:12:01 +0000 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-11-08 am 21:48 +0100, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven: > > I'd argue we should remove 250 and add 300, but that might be excess > > disruption for now. > > > the last time 300 was proposed the counter argument was that it was > lousy in terms of PIT rounding... did you check that out?
It keeps time better than 250 when I tried it. It is not perfect but then the PIT runs at a stupid rate so any choice is a little bit off. I think there might be a better argument anyway for making HZ fixed at 1000 and adding a boot time parameter/sysctl value which is a "ticks divisor", so on a server you can do
echo "10" >/proc/sys/tick_granularity
and jiffies bumps in 10s 1/10th as often. That needs someone who understands the maths and the behaviour of the time slew and xntp stuff to do the job right though, and that isn't me.
Alan
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