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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:54:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com>
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       Linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible
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Hi,

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> This is not a problem at all. Just define HZ as:
> 
> extern int system_hz;
> #define HZ system_hz
> 
> After that all code will use variable HZ. Changing HZ on fly will be
> dangerous. However HZ can be made a boot time (LILO) parameter.

OK, that's probably a start. As the next step, I'd recommend that the 
maintainers and their supporters try to replace the static HZ with 
possibly-dynamic system_hz. The third step would be to have guys like Ingo 
to tune system_hz to be really dynamic.

Cool idea, anyway.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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