On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:16:01 -0400 Lee Revell wrote: | On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: | > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > | > > > This is not a userspace visible thing really with few exceptions, and | > > > well people can select the one they want, right? | > > | > > Then why not leave the default at 1000? | > | > Because some machines exhibit appreciable latency in entering low power | > state via ACPI, and 1000Hz reduces their battery life. By about half, | > iirc. | > | | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default | alone. Why should everyone have to bear the cost?
indeed, why should everyone have to have 1000 timer interrupts per second? --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
