From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263335AbVGOQsw (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:48:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263338AbVGOQsw (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:48:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU ([171.67.16.123]:37857 "EHLO smtp1.Stanford.EDU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263335AbVGOQr7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:47:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Lee Revell , Vojtech Pavlik , Arjan van de Ven , dean gaudet , Chris Wedgwood , Andrew Morton , "Brown, Len" , dtor_core@ameritech.net, david.lang@digitalinsight.com, kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@mbligh.org, diegocg@gmail.com, azarah@nosferatu.za.org, christoph@lameter.com In-Reply-To: <42D7B017.4060300@tmr.com> References: <1121286258.4435.98.camel@mindpipe> <20050713134857.354e697c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050713211650.GA12127@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050714005106.GA16085@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1121304825.4435.126.camel@mindpipe> <1121326938.3967.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050714121340.GA1072@ucw.cz> <1121383050.4535.73.camel@mindpipe> <1121384499.4535.82.camel@mindpipe> <1121394653.19939.775.camel@cmn37.stanford.edu> <42D7B017.4060300@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1121445983.27695.8.camel@cmn37.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 15 Jul 2005 09:46:23 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 05:46, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > >>>And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's > >>>completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that > >>>HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds. > >>> > >>Ok, guys. How many people have this MIDI thing? How many of you can't be > >>bothered to set the default to suit your usage? > >> > >>>It's straight from the MIDI spec. Your argument is pretty close to "the > >>>MIDI spec is wrong, no one can hear the difference between 1ms and 4ms". > >>> > >>No. > >> > >>YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do". > >> > >>MY argument is that this is a case of give and take. > > > >Take from "few" multimedia users, give to "many" laptop users. Where > >"few" and "many" are not very well defined quantities, but obviously > >"many" > "few" :-) > > > Of course that assumes that these are not the same users, which clearly > isn't true in all cases. Yes, indeed, the two sets do intersect, I belong to both. I can't speak for everybody in the "multimedia" set but in my musical work (and I suspect many others share this view) I would rather not sacrifice timing precision for battery life. Of course there are scenarios where the opposite can be true, but are fewer by far (IMHO). -- Fernando