13 Jul
2005
13 Jul
'05
8:26 p.m.
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:
Because we want MIDI sequencers to work OOTB, like on other OSes.
Lee
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:52 -0400, Lee Revell
wrote:
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?
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan
Rzewnicki wrote:
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. > > 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.