Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 19:42:46 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] HZ entry in /proc/sys/kernel |
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On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:39:57PM +0200, Daniele wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 02:15:57PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 13:53, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: > > > I have seen few scripts allready that are assuming HZ==100. > > > Afaik this value is different in 2.5/2.4 for the same arch. > > > > No it's not actually. > > The userspace interface is constant/stable and in units of HZ=100 even > > though the kernel HZ might be different. > > > > What's this HZ value related to?
the userspace interface is not in units of kernel HZ, but in "theoretical time units that happen to match a defined default" which happens to match 10ms on x86.
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