On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:02 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > I doubt that increasing the timer frequency is the way to go to solve > these issues. HZ should be as low as possible and we should strive for > a tickless system.
Agreed. Most of those applications are driven by their own interrupt source anyway. I do think Linus' proposal, or even copying what Windows does, would be a big improvement over the fixed tick rate. 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/
