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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Reduce the default HZ value
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On Thu, 7 May 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Amen.  Also, "using HZ as a unit of measurement must die, too."

Dont think that is a problem if we had a convention of seeing 1 HZ as an
interval of 1 ms or so.