On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:07:10 -0700
Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I was wondering why do we still have the default HZ value as 1000 for
> the x86 kernels.
> 
> arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig:CONFIG_HZ=1000
> arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig:CONFIG_HZ=1000
> 
> With the highres timer implementation it was planned to move away from
> relying on high timer interrupt frequency for applications requiring
> precise high resolution timers.

With the tickless kernel does this really matter any more ? We might as
well keep a logical 1000 for convenience and accuracy.

Alan