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SubjectRe: sysconf (was Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs)
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hpa@zytor.com said:
> I don't think we want to do this! IMO, HZ should not get exported to
> user space *AT ALL*. Instead, for the few interfaces that need it,
> we'll export a "user space HZ" (USER_HZ) which is fixed. No need for
> a kernel hack. When we support nonstandard values for HZ, we need to
> fix the few interfaces that actually export jiffies values to convert
> from "user jiffies" to real jiffies.

No. Why do the arithmetic in the kernel when we could just export the raw
data, with full accuracy, and let user-space sort it out?

User-space may want to know the value of HZ for other reasons anyway.

if (HZ < 1000) {
perror("You must hack your kernel to improve scheduling latency");
exit(1);
}



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