Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Egil Kvaleberg <> | Subject | Re: Can and should the kernel HZ value be changed? | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:31:32 GMT |
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On 3 Jan 1999, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> This shouldnt be true for CONFIG_I386 or something. I agree for > current desktop systems like K6/>=200 and other compareable > processors. This should maybe be bound to the CPU selection and/or > seperatly configurable.
With respect to the ix86:
The current HZ value of 100 is definitely archaic, best suitable for a 386SX at 16MHz. The performance potential of increasing HZ with respect to realtime and interactivite responsiveness is so huge, it simply cannot be overlooked.
I have a patch for the user RTC upper limit, making it somewhat proportional to BogoMips. This is of course pretty vague, but works well enough in practice. Perhaps a similar method could be used for HZ? A selection based on processor type would also work, I guess (something along 100 for i386, 256 for i486, 512 for i586, 1024 for i686).
How difficult is it to fix the uptime wraparound issue by use of a long long?
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