Hi Ingo & linux-kernel,
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playing with the openSUSE 10.0 beta-test I slipped over problems with procinfo etc.
so I noticed that at least suse/novell again changed the scheduler frequency HZ
from 1000 to 250. which led me to the following question, for which I got no
commets from SUSE so far, and since it's not a suse-only issue anyway...
the linux kernel for suse 10.0 will run with HZ==250 by default (9.x used HZ==1000).
for HZ==100 and HZ==1000 there is special code in kernel/timer.c to
adjust the value of time_adj because HZ isn't a power of two and
clock stuff uses some binary shift operations instead of divides
(and 100!=128 or 1000!=1024).
what about having a similar special case for the new HZ==250 too ??
using 250 instead of 256 (SHIFT_HZ==8), which is an error of 2.4 %,
identical to 1000 vs. 1024.
any feelings or comments about the following patch ?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- kernel/timer.c~ 2005-08-22 22:50:27.000000000 +0200
+++ kernel/timer.c 2005-08-31 15:12:57.801644750 +0200
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@
else
time_adj += (time_adj >> 2) + (time_adj >> 5);
#endif
-#if HZ == 1000
+#if HZ == 1000 || HZ == 250
/* Compensate for (HZ==1000) != (1 << SHIFT_HZ).
* Add 1.5625% and 0.78125% to get 1023.4375; => only 0.05% error (p. 14)
*/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
or maybe (just in case...:) even
#if HZ == 1000 || HZ == 500 || HZ == 250
comments ?
Harald
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