Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 May 2009 21:34:03 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Reduce the default HZ value |
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> >> Given your use case, what you really need to do is get Red Hat, > >> Novell, et al. on the phone and ask them to ship kernels with HZ=100, > >> because the distributions do their own thing anyway.
As a side note Red Hat ships runtime configurable tick behaviour in RHEL these days. HZ is fixed but the ticks can be bunched up. That was done as a quick fix to keep stuff portable but its a lot more sensible than randomly messing with the HZ value and its not much code either.
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