Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:38:32 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible |
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:28:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > But on the other hand, increasing HZ has perf/latency benefits, yes? Have > > > these been quantified? > > > > Not that I'm aware of. And I'd regard any such claims with some > > scepticism. > > The most obvious one is the reduced latency of select/poll timeouts.
OK, I'll grant that. Why is this useful?
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