Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:35:55 -0400

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:28:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But on the other hand, increasing HZ has perf/latency benefits, yes? Have
> > these been quantified?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. And I'd regard any such claims with some
> scepticism.

The most obvious one is the reduced latency of select/poll timeouts.

-ben

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