Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:12:23 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Measured overhead of timer interrupts |
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On Mon, Jul 19 1999, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Should HZ=1024 be safe on x86?
Sure, why not. To my knowledge, there are no HZ == 100 dependencies left in the kernel.
> If it's not completely safe, what do I need to fix and submit patches for > so that we can be HZ=1024 on x86 for 2.4? :)
You could go look for drivers that count 100 jiffies as one second. I'm pretty sure that it has been cleaned up, though
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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