On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 15:12 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > >A coincidence I hope. I'm not sure how increased timing resolution could > >cause the drifting effects you've observed. I've also not noticed > >any other similar reports (yet?). > > > > Dave > > > > > Dave, > As you have appeared here, could you please comment why HZ was changed? > > I have some confusion on this. > First, the upstream kernel has this changed (since 2.6.13 ?) in backward > direction, i.e. from 1000 to 250. actually the upstream kernel changed to offer a choice, with 3 options, 1000, 250 and 100. This was done after it was recognized that there are different valid scenarios for either of those values. > Second, why Fedora's change is implemented just now (in the middle of > life cycle), but not at distro release boundary? does it matter? This is only internally visible to the kernel, not to userspace (other than an improvement in accuracy) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
