Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:01:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:01:02 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:33275 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:01:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5] July 10, 2002 From: Robert Love To: Ville Herva Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020710191824.GT1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi> References: <3D2B89AC.25661.91896FEB@localhost> <1026323661.1178.73.camel@sinai> <20020710191824.GT1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 10 Jul 2002 13:03:38 -0700 Message-Id: <1026331418.1244.82.camel@sinai> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1048 Lines: 27 On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 12:18, Ville Herva wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:54:21AM -0700, you [Robert Love] wrote: > > > > As of 2.5.25, we have HZ=1000 (on x86) and a scalable user-space > > exported clock_t that remains at 100 HZ to keep user-space compatible. > > This is attributed to the Commander in Chief, Linus Torvalds. > > But jiffies now wrap at 49.7 days, right? If so, did Tim Schmielau's jiffies > wrap patches go in as well? ISTR they went in -dj. George Anzinger's 64-bit jiffies are in 2.5. Tim's code to better utilize them is in 2.5 I _think_. > Didn't Red Hat change HZ to 1000 (or 1024) in Limbo as well? How did they > handle that? Yes, RedHat's current devel kernel is using HZ=1000. I am not sure how they handled it. What we have in 2.5 now is correct. Robert Love - 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/