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

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:39 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Tickless + sub HZ timers is a win for everyone, the multimedia people
> > get better latency, and the laptop people get to run longer.
> 
> IIRC it's not a win for many systems.  Throughput goes down due to timer 
> manipulation overhead.

Makes sense.  Anyway, this whole thread has been pretty hand wavey, I
propose that until we see some numbers from the HZ=250 advocates, we
leave the default alone.

Lee

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