Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:52:56 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23 can run with HZ==0! |
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:52:40PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:45:27AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > not all motherboards can deal with HZ=1000.... seems yours is one of > > thise. > > But it seems to work. I would expect it to fail quite soon right at or after > boot, not after a day once every few weeks (assuming it was the cause). > > > your patch is *highly* inadequate to get HZ=1000 working well in 2.4.... > > it needs to be about 10x bigger with fixing more userspace api's... > > Can you give me an example? > > HZ for x386 is 100 by definition and there aren't that many system calls > and /proc files which expose jiffies to userspace.
there are quite a few you missed; scsi ioctls is one, firewall rules are another.... there's a long list (2.6 has most if not all of them fixed) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |