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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:35:55 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:28:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But on the other hand, increasing HZ has perf/latency benefits, yes? Have
> > these been quantified?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of.  And I'd regard any such claims with some
> scepticism.

The most obvious one is the reduced latency of select/poll timeouts.

		-ben
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