Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261386AbVEQLgB (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 07:36:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261396AbVEQLYN (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 07:24:13 -0400 Received: from [195.23.16.24] ([195.23.16.24]:9935 "EHLO bipbip.comserver-pie.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261386AbVEQKvP (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 06:51:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4289CC97.9010105@grupopie.com> Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:51:03 +0100 From: Paulo Marques Organization: Grupo PIE User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Christoph Lameter , randy_dunlap , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt. References: <20050516150907.6fde04d3.akpm@osdl.org> <20050516194651.1debabfd.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20050517034028.GC9699@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050517034028.GC9699@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 27 Andi Kleen wrote: >>[...] > I would add a > > config HZ_10 if EMBEDDED > bool "10 Hz" > > that is useful for compute servers (although it will violate the TCP > specification). EMBEDDED would ensure only people who know what they're > doing set it. I thought the lowest frequency the PIT timer would give was around 18 Hz. Am I wrong, or are you thinking of other timing devices / different platforms? -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/