Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:16:20 +0200 | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | Re: HZ needed in userspace, was Re: sysconf (was Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs) |
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On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:44:10PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It doesn't have to be, although that would be nice, and it really > should be a hanging offence to create new interfaces which export HZ > to user space. The point is that when we change HZ in kernel space, > we will still export HZ == 100 to user space (i386), and we'll have to > do the conversion in kernel space.
Fine. I think that for clarity's sake we should then drop the name 'HZ' when we mean 'userspace faked HZ' - to prevent confusion. We should not have several kinds of jiffies floating around.
Manpages and Documentation can just mention that everything is configured in units of 10ms.
Regards,
bert hubert
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