Re: [patch] dynticks core: Fix idle time accounting

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 04:05:49 EST



* Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Even though I have CONFIG_HZ=1000, this ends up generating a synthetic
> count that works out to 100 per second. gkrellm and vmstat are happy
> with that state of affairs, but I'm not sure why it came out to
> 100/sec rather than 1000/sec.

that's how it worked for quite some time: all userspace APIs are
HZ-independent and depend on USER_HZ (which is 100 even if HZ is 1000).

Ingo
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