Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:    Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:07:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > Yes, but that's because the interfaces are broken.  The decision has
> > been that these values should be exported using the default HZ for the
> > architecture, and that it is the kernel's responsibility to scale them
> > when HZ != USER_HZ.  I don't know if any work has been done in this
> > area.
> 
> We have such patches in the MIPS tree but I never dared to send them to
> Linus ...
> 

Please do.

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