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From: Grant Likely <glikely@gmail•com>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge•com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl•org>,
	Tom Rini <trini@kernel•crashing.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@freescale•com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc32: add CONFIG_HZ
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:04:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050827050422.GC7234@siegfried.thelikelysolution.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da1e14409c0face6cee5b4d5fa750c00@embeddededge.com>

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:07:01PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> 
> On Aug 26, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> >Yes, it was.  With 2.6.13 and on i386 (and other arches that actually
> >make use of the question) it can be any of 100, 250 or 1000.
> 
> Well, 250 just seems wrong as I mentioned in a previous message.
> It will function, but an application is going to see lots of clock 
> jitter
> unless you work in multiples of 100.  My choices would be 100, 200,
> 500, or 1000.
What's the reason for clock jitter?  Is it because most timeouts are set
to multiples of 100, or some other reason?

Thanks,
g.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-27  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-26 22:48 [PATCH] ppc32: add CONFIG_HZ Rune Torgersen
2005-08-26 22:54 ` Dan Malek
2005-08-26 22:55 ` Tom Rini
2005-08-26 23:07   ` Dan Malek
2005-08-26 23:13     ` Tom Rini
2005-08-27  5:04     ` Grant Likely [this message]
2005-08-28  0:48       ` Dan Malek
2005-08-28  2:19         ` Paul Mackerras
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-26 19:15 Kumar Gala
2005-08-26 20:13 ` Dan Malek
2005-08-26 21:31   ` Tom Rini
2005-08-26 22:52     ` Dan Malek
2005-09-08  1:04     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-08 14:11       ` Kumar Gala
2005-09-08 15:53         ` Dan Malek
2005-08-29 15:31   ` Segher Boessenkool

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