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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?

  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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