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SubjectRe: finding out the value of HZ from userspace
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On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 23:10, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:17, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > > Is it possible to find out what the kernel's notion of HZ is from user
> > > space?
> > > It seem to change from system to system and between 2.4 (100 on i386)
> > > to 2.6 (1000 on i386).
> >
> > if you can see 1000 from userspace that is a bad kernel bug; can you say
> > where you find something in units of 1000 ?
>
> I can't see it from user space. Its in the kernel headers. The thing is
> I am working on fixes to laptop mode. The problem is it requires
> changing bdflush and journaled file systems journal flush times. The
> problem is that some of these (bdflush, xfs) expect the value in jiffies
> and not seconds or milliseconds so making the initiation script portable
> requires knowing the value of HZ.

the kernel side is supposed to use clock_t_to_jiffies() and co for this
to present a unified HZ to userspace. The internal kernel HZ should
*NOT* leak out to usespace. Heck it's quite thinkable that in the future
there will be no such HZ.


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