On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:18:41 +0200 Claudio Scordino wrote: > Hi, > > during the last years there has been a lot of discussion about the "best" > value of HZ... On i386 was 100, then became 1000, and finally was set to 250. > I'm thinking to do an evaluation of this parameter using different > architectures. > > Has anybody thought to give the possibility to modify the value of HZ at boot > time instead of at compile time ? This would allow to easily test different > values on different machines and create a table containing the "best" value > for each architecture... At this moment, instead, we have to recompile the > kernel for each different value :( > > Do you think there would be much work to do that ? Not a lot. Could be useful. > Do you think it would be a desired feature the knowledge of the best value for > each architecture with more precision ? In this thread (around 2005-july-14) Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt there was some interest in that, and the beginnings of a patch. But the dynamic tick patch seems to have sidelined this one. --- ~Randy -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
