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Subject: Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 01:34, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> No, it also makes it much easier to convert to/from the standard UNIX time
> formats (ie "struct timeval" and "struct timespec") without any surprises,
> because a jiffy is exactly representable in both if you have a HZ value
> of 100 or 100, but not if your HZ is 1024.

Exactly - this was my issue.  So what _was_ the rationale behind Alpha
picking 1024 (and others following)?  More importantly, can we change to
1000?

	Robert Love

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