Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:13:21 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:07 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > --Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote (on Monday, July 11, 2005 20:30:59 -0400): > > > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:39 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > >> Lee Revell wrote: > >> > >> > Tickless + sub HZ timers is a win for everyone, the multimedia people > >> > get better latency, and the laptop people get to run longer. > >> > >> IIRC it's not a win for many systems. Throughput goes down due to timer > >> manipulation overhead. > > > > Makes sense. Anyway, this whole thread has been pretty hand wavey, I > > propose that until we see some numbers from the HZ=250 advocates, we > > leave the default alone. > > Odd. Since I showed you some numbers already ... and nobody from the latency > side of the argument has come up with any?
Sorry, I have not seen any. Got a link?
Lee
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