Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
17 Apr 2002 02:01:42 -0400


On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 01:34, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> No, it also makes it much easier to convert to/from the standard UNIX time
> formats (ie "struct timeval" and "struct timespec") without any surprises,
> because a jiffy is exactly representable in both if you have a HZ value
> of 100 or 100, but not if your HZ is 1024.

Exactly - this was my issue. So what _was_ the rationale behind Alpha
picking 1024 (and others following)? More importantly, can we change to
1000?

Robert Love

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