[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:17 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:20:20PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:52 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > > > > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue?
> > > > > Saving battery on laptops.  The only performance numbers anyone posted
> > > > > indicated HZ=250 sped up a kernel compile on a 16 CPU machine (!) by
> > > > > ~5%, and this was after the fact.  Not exactly compelling...
> > > > > But since Linus and Andrew apparently all use laptops, us desktop people
> > > > > are screwed...
> > > > Any chance they would make it a config option?
> > > It is a config option, the available settings are 100, 250, and 1000.
> > > The problem is that the default has changed to 250.
> > Update: Linus has said that this is a done deal.  So now we need to
> > figure out how to work around it.  I guess we'll have to go back to
> > using the RTC like on 2.4.
> 
> I'm confused ... most of us build our own kernels or use kernels built
> by Fernando or Free. Why can't kernels just be built with the config
> option set to 1000?
> 

Because we want MIDI sequencers to work OOTB, like on other OSes.

Lee