On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:38 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > - there are real-time applications (robotic environments: fast rotating > tools, media and mobile/phone applications, etc.) that want 10 > usecs precision. If such users increased HZ to 100,000 or even > 1000,000, the current timer implementation would start to creek: e.g. > jiffies on 32-bit systems would wrap around in 11 hours or 1.1 hours. > (To solve this cleanly, pretty much the only solution seems to be to > increase the timeout to a 64 bit value. A non-issue for 64-bit > systems, that's why i think we could eventually look at this > possibility, once all the other problems are hashed out.) >
Those types of systems will not be 64 bit for many, many years, if ever... Lee - 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/
