From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around for periodic do_gettimeofday hang
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:33:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041124203349.7982efb7.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101356864.4007.35.camel@mulgrave>
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
>
> +config X86_HZ
> + int "Clock Tick Rate"
> + default 1000 if !(M386 || M486 || M586 || M586TSC || M586MMX)
> + default 100 if (M386 || M486 || M586 || M586TSC || M586MMX)
> + help
> + Select the kernel clock tick rate in interrupts per second.
> + Slower processors should choose 100; everything else 1000.
I guess we don't need the help, given that it's not a menuisable option.
(There was a make-HZ-selectable patch once, and Linus spat it out).
Silly question: how come do_gettimeofday() is hanging?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-25 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-24 16:49 James Bottomley
2004-11-24 19:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-25 4:27 ` James Bottomley
2004-11-25 4:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-25 4:40 ` James Bottomley
2004-11-25 8:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-27 22:38 ` Lee Revell
2004-11-25 11:18 ` Roman Zippel
2004-11-25 13:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-25 15:47 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-25 17:33 ` James Bottomley
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