Re: How to know HZ from userspace?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
31 May 2001 21:12:00 -0700
Followup to: <20010601035739.A1630@bacchus.dhis.org>
By author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:07:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Yes, but that's because the interfaces are broken. The decision has
> > been that these values should be exported using the default HZ for the
> > architecture, and that it is the kernel's responsibility to scale them
> > when HZ != USER_HZ. I don't know if any work has been done in this
> > area.
>
> We have such patches in the MIPS tree but I never dared to send them to
> Linus ...
>
Please do.
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