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Re: [patch 1/1] Update laptop mode control script with XFS_HZ=100

To: Bart Samwel <bart@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] Update laptop mode control script with XFS_HZ=100
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 01:04:53 -0700
Cc: nathans@xxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Bart Samwel <bart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  >>aargh.  XFS is broken.  It shouldn't be exposing jiffy-based tunables into
>  >>/proc, or `mount -o remount' or whatever.
>  >>
>  >>It would be much better to rework XFS so that these user-visible tunables
>  >>are in units of milliseconds, centiseconds or whatever.
> 
>  They're in USER_HZ since 2.6.6. Andrew, is that OK or should they really 
>  be in some even more fixed unit?

All architectures have USER_HZ=100.  But it's a bit nicer and future-proof
to relabel it as centiseconds.


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