Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:51:00 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Can and should the kernel HZ value be changed? |
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On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:33:14PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I know one point for which it's not good to leave the timer irq "slow" on > 32bit machines. All linux timeout (starting from select, nanosleep, poll, > add_timer()) can be at most (~0UL>>1)-1 jiffies. If you increase the jiffy > speed the final result is that you'll be able to handle a very little > maximal timeout everywhere (if I remeber well going from 100 to 1000 you > goes from month to days).
Is there any reason why the scheduler interrupt can't run faster than the jiffies counter?
-- Jamie
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