Return-Path: Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id <154343-13684>; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 21:11:46 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <154352-13684>; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:55:40 -0500 Received: from lilly.ping.de ([195.37.120.2]:25843 "HELO lilly.ping.de" ident: "qmailr") by vger.rutgers.edu with SMTP id <154768-13684>; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 02:26:34 -0500 Message-ID: <19990106102908.A27572@kg1.ping.de> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:29:08 +0100 From: Kurt Garloff To: "B. James Phillippe" Cc: Linux kernel list Subject: Re: [PATCH] HZ change for ix86 Mail-Followup-To: "B. James Phillippe" , Linux kernel list References: <19990105094830.A17862@kg1.ping.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.90.4i In-Reply-To: ; from B. James Phillippe on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 09:25:25PM -0800 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.1.132 i686 Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Content-Length: 965 Lines: 20 On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 09:25:25PM -0800, B. James Phillippe wrote: > I don't know anything about it (and my box is an Alpha for which HZ is > 1024), but, one ignorant proposal: would it perhaps be worthwhile to have > the HZ value higher for faster (x86) systems based on the target picked in > make config? Say, your 400 for Pentium+ and 100 for 486 or lower..? Yes, I think this would be a good idea. No time to code it into the CONFIG files, right now, though ... If Linus tells me: "Hey, do it, it will be integrated then!" I will have time, of course. -- Kurt Garloff [Dortmund, FRG] Plasma physics, high perf. computing [Linux-ix86,-axp, DUX] PGP key on http://www.garloff.de/kurt/ [Linux SCSI driver: DC390] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/