Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759150AbXLAEUV (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:20:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755262AbXLAET7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:19:59 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36858 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755459AbXLAET6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:19:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4750E0D7.9060402@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:19:35 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c References: <200711300019.lAU0Jpbr003807@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> <20071201003333.GR29463@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20071201003333.GR29463@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 598 Lines: 21 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I have read the hep text, but are the advantages of HZ == 300 really > visible or was this more theoretical? > > In the latter case, we might remove the HZ == 300 choice instead. > Well, we have, for various architectures: HZ == 48, 100, 128, 250, 256, 300, 1000, 1024 You'd have to kill 48, 128, 256, 300 and 1024. -hpa - 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/