Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:54:53 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HZ change for ix86 |
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On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 10:57:16PM -0500, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> Thanx for the insightful information about the impact of > changing the HZ values. Questions: a) how platform specific is this > setting (i86, ALPHA, et al)
each platform is differnet, for example, x86 is 100, alpha is 1024. Some RT people use 10,000 or so on x86 I beleive (you can also do this to get more fine frained shaper control)
> and b) Does increasing the HZ value increases context switches or > increases duration of each context?
no
> This sounds like an excellent developer's config option to me....
why? what are you truing to achieve?
-cw
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