Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:30 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote:
> | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default
> | alone.  Why should everyone have to bear the cost?
> 
> indeed, why should everyone have to have 1000 timer interrupts per second?

So why waste everyone's time with CONFIG_HZ when there are working
dynamic tick solutions out there?  It's just bad release engineering.

Lee

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