Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] HZ as a config option | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 05 Oct 2002 01:53:16 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 23:53, Dave Hansen wrote: > On large systems (like NUMA-Q, Intel Profusion, etc...), latency and > user responsiveness become much less important. The extra scheduling > overhead caused by higher HZ is bad. > > This is x86-only right now. Is there any wider desire to tune this at > config time? Do any architecutures have strict rules as to what this > can be set to?
You can't set this arbitarily, the NTP PLL's will only lock for certain value ranges.
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