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 - 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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