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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Reduce the default HZ value
> > As a side note Red Hat ships runtime configurable tick behaviour in RHEL
> > these days. HZ is fixed but the ticks can be bunched up. That was done as
> > a quick fix to keep stuff portable but its a lot more sensible than
> > randomly messing with the HZ value and its not much code either.
> >
> Hi Alan,
>
> I guess you are talking about the tick_divider patch ?
> And that's still same as reducing the HZ value only that it can be done
> dynamically (boot time), right ?

Yes - which has the advantage that you can select different behaviours
rather than distributions having to build with HZ=1000 either for
compatibility or responsiveness can still allow users to drop to a lower
HZ value if doing stuff like HPC.

Basically it removes the need to argue about it at build time and lets
the user decide.


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