Lee Revell said: > 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. hey, that seems to expect some top-level release (or project) management. ;) anyway, I was just trying to point out more than one side to this, and you have now done the same. thanks. -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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