Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:34:46 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HZ==100 assumptions |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > attached patch kills all HZ==100 assumptions i noticed in various > > drivers. > > Most of these are wrong. It uses 1 to mean "defer as short as possible"
Those drivers have been tested with HZ==100, but probably not with any other value. Also if HZ is made very large (e.g. microsecond accuracy) "defer as short as possible" is the wrong behaviour.
So IMHO those 1s should all be changed to HZ/100.
-- Jamie
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