Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:02:14 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Measured overhead of timer interrupts |
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On 22 Jul 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:
> It is a kernel bug, HZ is not exported. Actually two, because none of > the /proc should have used it as units, but that cannot be fixed anymore.
why cannot it be fixed?
> It is easy to add a read-only sysctl for HZ though and make netstat use > this, but this won't fix the trillions of other /proc parsers.
we do not want to export HZ, why should we? HZ has no meaning to anything else than the kernel. If the kernel exports HZ-dependent values into /proc, then that has to be fixed. (yes it might be painful in some cases) HZ might even go away in future kernels - what if we start using nonperiodic timer interrupts?
-- mingo
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